Acronyms incorrectly detected as upper-case

Faulty Behavior

fix: JTD types -> JSON schema types

✖   subject must not be sentence-case, start-case, pascal-case, upper-case [subject-case]

The above fails as the linter detects the subject as being upper-case, even though it’s just an acronym.

Affected packages

• cli
• core
• prompt
• config-angular

Possible Solution

Check that all letters in the word are uppercase and assume it’s an acronym, ignoring any title-case lints. Skip for 1 letter words.

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

Lint the above commit message with @commitlint/config-conventional.

Your Environment

Executable	Version
commitlint --version	17.0.3
git --version	2.34.1
node --version	16.15.1
@commitlint/config-conventional	17.0.3

[escapedcat]

If you both agree now I’ll tag along. Up for a creating a PR?

[Qix-]

“feat: CORRECT BODY MESSAGE”,

That would be a different check.

const isSubjectUpperCase = subject === subject.toUpperCase();

allow-list of acronyms

Please no. There are too many internal acronyms that would have to be maintained, and for three-letter acronyms almost all of them would be in the list anyway. Then, when you use one that just happens not to be on the list, you get cryptic errors about… what exactly? “Acronym not known”?

It’s not that complicated, in my opinion. This is a case where it’s beginning to get in the way of work and a simple, sane solution like the above would suffice in all but the most egregious cases.