git: 'cz' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.

[martinhbramwell]

I don't know how to deal with this.

I assumed it was simply a Path or symlink issue but got no where at all trying to understand how they work between bash, npm, git and commitizen.

install

 you@trykik:~/projects/tryCommitizen$  sudo npm install commitizen -g
 npm WARN deprecated minimatch@2.0.10: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue
 npm WARN deprecated graceful-fs@3.0.8: graceful-fs v3.0.0 and before will fail on node releases >= v7.0. Please update to graceful-fs@^4.0.0 as soon as possible. Use 'npm ls graceful-fs' to find it in the tree.
 npm WARN deprecated lodash@1.0.2: lodash@<3.0.0 is no longer maintained. Upgrade to lodash@^4.0.0.
 npm WARN deprecated minimatch@0.2.14: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue
 npm WARN deprecated graceful-fs@1.2.3: graceful-fs v3.0.0 and before will fail on node releases >= v7.0. Please update to graceful-fs@^4.0.0 as soon as possible. Use 'npm ls graceful-fs' to find it in the tree.
 /home/you/.npm/bin/git-cz -> /home/you/.npm/lib/node_modules/commitizen/bin/git-cz
 /home/you/.npm/bin/commitizen -> /home/you/.npm/lib/node_modules/commitizen/bin/commitizen
 /home/you/.npm/lib
 └─┬ commitizen@2.8.2 
   ├─┬ chalk@1.1.3 
   │ ├── ansi-styles@2.2.1 
   │ ├── escape-string-regexp@1.0.5 
   │ ├─┬ has-ansi@2.0.0 

       :

   ├── lodash@4.11.1 
   ├── minimist@1.2.0 
   ├── shelljs@0.5.3 
   └── strip-json-comments@2.0.1 

run

 you@trykik:~/projects/tryCommitizen$ git cz
 git: 'cz' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.

 Did you mean one of these?
      am
      fsck
      gc
      mv
      rm

.profile

 you@trykik:~/projects/tryCommitizen$ cat ~/.profile

       :

 # set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
 if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
     PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
 fi

 export PATH=~/npm/bin:$PATH

.npmrc

 you@trykik:~/projects/tryCommitizen$ cat ~/.npmrc 
 ; cli configs
 prefix = "~/.npm"

system

 you@trykik:~/projects/tryCommitizen$ lsb_release -a
 No LSB modules are available.
 Distributor ID:    Ubuntu
 Description:   Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
 Release:   16.04
 Codename:  xenial



 you@trykik:~/projects/tryCommitizen$ node --version
 v4.4.7


 you@trykik:~/projects/tryCommitizen$ npm --version
 3.10.3



 you@trykik:~/projects/tryCommitizen$ 

Please let me know if you need more information.

[pmcelhaney]

I'm not an expert on where npm puts things, but something I noticed is you have export PATH=~/npm/bin:$PATH but the symlink was created at /home/you/.npm/bin/git-cz. There's a "." before npm. Try changing that in your .profile file.

If that doesn't work, you might have more luck on superuser.com.

[martinhbramwell]

That's very astute. Thank you.

I have since killed the VM I was using to try that. I believe ´NodeJS´ and ´npm´ were installed on it using ´apt´.

I am now on a different VM, where I know I installed ´NodeJS´ and ´npm´ with ´nvm´.

Now I have no problem at all.

[LinusU]

I believe that @pmcelhaney's solution is probably the correct one, please feel free to reopen if you have problems with it...

[elpddev]

I had to install commitizen as global npm package fot git cz to work.

[stavalfi]

this should be documented somewhere.

[ghacosta]

If you don't want to install commitizen globally you can write the write the hooks as follows:

exec < /dev/tty && node_modules/.bin/cz --hook || true

[jacksparrow1111]

If you don't want to install commitizen globally you can write the write the hooks as follows:

exec < /dev/tty && node_modules/.bin/cz --hook || true

Can you explain what --hook || true is doing

[Parth909]

First of all install commitizen using the package manager you prefer.
Along with it cz-conventional-changelog will also be added.

There is no need for you to install it globally

Then run

commitizen init cz-conventional-changelog --yarn --dev --exact

commitizen init cz-conventional-changelog --yarn --dev --exact --force :- to forcefully reinitialize

If you get an error that commitizen: command not found then run the binary directly npx commitizen init cz-conventional-changelog --yarn --dev --exact

Then run the binary directly using npx cz

[jacksparrow1111]

First of all install commitizen using the package manager you prefer. Along with it cz-conventional-changelog will also be added.

Then run the binary directly using npx cz

Thanks @Parth909 ! It works now

[jacksparrow1111]

If you don't want to install commitizen globally you can write the write the hooks as follows:

exec < /dev/tty && node_modules/.bin/cz --hook || true

@ghacosta This doesn't work

[anied]

If you don't want to install commitizen globally you can write the write the hooks as follows:

exec < /dev/tty && node_modules/.bin/cz --hook || true

@ghacosta This doesn't work

It worked for me-- OSX, using it for a Husky v8 setup.

[shady1440]

&& node_modules/.bin/cz

you have to make the file executable
chmod +x .husky/prepare-commit-msg