The 0.8.0 release is a significant release that has been in the works for a long time. Special thanks to Claymore, gernd and ZhangYaxu for submitting bug reports and pull requests.
- Full unicode support: you can now lint messages in any language! This fixes
#16 and #18. - User-defined rules: you can now define your own custom rules if you want to extend gitlint's functionality.
- Pypy2 support!
- Debug output improvements: Gitlint will now print your active configuration when using
--debug - The
general.targetoption can now also be set via-cflags or a.gitlintfile - Bugfixes:
- Various important fixes related to configuration precedence
- #17: Body MinLength is not working properly.
Behavior Change: Gitlint now always applies this rule, even if the body has just a single line of content. Also, gitlint now counts the body-length for the entire body, not just the length of the first line.
- Various documentation improvements
- Development:
- Pylint compliance for all supported python versions
- Updated dependencies to latest versions
- Various
run_tests.shimprovements for developer convenience