Error when used with Husky: "Please add rules to your commitlint.config.js"

Expected Behavior

The following Husky hook used to work perfectly with “@commitlint/cli”: “^7.2.1” and “husky”: “^1.2.1”

  "husky": {
    "hooks": {
      "commit-msg": "commitlint -E HUSKY_GIT_PARAMS"
    }
  },

Current Behavior

Today I started getting the following error:

Please add rules to your commitlint.config.js

I have never needed this file before!

Affected packages

• cli
• core
• prompt
• config-angular

Possible Solution

I added the commitlint.config.js file to fix the problem, but it seems mysterious how this started appearing suddenly.

Note: I do not understand how HUSKY_GIT_PARAMS works. The husky documents do not quite explain it.

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

You can see my fixed project here: https://github.com/archfirst/joinjs. The previous commit did not work.

[AndresdoSantos]

Hi @escapedcat, were these versions…

{
    "@commitlint/cli": "^17.0.2",
    "@commitlint/config-conventional": "^17.0.2",
    "typescript": "^4.7.3",
}

[nareshbhatia]

Thanks for clarifying @marionebl. It makes total sense 👍