(maint) Add commit summary check

This commit adds the `commits` rake task and runs it in the Static Code
Analysis workflow as a step.

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index e1d5f7b..7f91a3f 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -84,3 +84,28 @@ EOM
   end
 end
 
+desc "verify that commit messages match CONTRIBUTING.md requirements"
+task(:commits) do
+  # This rake task looks at the summary from every commit from this branch not
+  # in the branch targeted for a PR.
+  commit_range = 'HEAD^..HEAD'
+  puts "Checking commits #{commit_range}"
+  %x{git log --no-merges --pretty=%s #{commit_range}}.each_line do |commit_summary|
+    # This regex tests for the currently supported commit summary tokens.
+    # The exception tries to explain it in more full.
+    if /^\((maint|packaging|doc|docs|modules-\d+)\)|revert/i.match(commit_summary).nil?
+      raise "\n\n\n\tThis commit summary didn't match CONTRIBUTING.md guidelines:\n" \
+        "\n\t\t#{commit_summary}\n" \
+        "\tThe commit summary (i.e. the first line of the commit message) should start with one of:\n"  \
+        "\t\t(MODULES-<digits>) # this is most common and should be a ticket at tickets.puppet.com\n" \
+        "\t\t(docs)\n" \
+        "\t\t(docs)(DOCUMENT-<digits>)\n" \
+        "\t\t(packaging)\n"
+        "\t\t(maint)\n" \
+        "\n\tThis test for the commit summary is case-insensitive.\n\n\n"
+    else
+      puts "#{commit_summary}"
+    end
+    puts "...passed"
+  end
+end