Rule for forcing commit body

[dsalaza4]

Hi,

It seems like there is not a rule for forcing a message in the commit body.

I took a look here but only found the body-min-length rule.

At first I thought I could force adding something to the body by enabling the rule and setting a minimum length of, let's say 5. But it seems like the rule does not apply if the commit body is left completely empty.

Are there any thoughts on implementing a body-exists rule?

[escapedcat]

No thoughts so far. I don't think someone asked for this so far. @byCedric you remember anything?
Not sure if anything would speak against such a feature. Maybe it's possible to do it with a plugin though?

[bentsi]

the same as we have scope-empty, subject-empty we need to have body-empty rule. In my use case, the body is mandatory, but currently, I am not able to enforce this.

[kleinfreund]

I find the current behavior very surprising. If the body-min-length criteria is set to something positive, then I expect this rule to fail if no body is present.

[flozero]

Is there any update about this ? I am looking to have the same for the footer too

[armano2]

to my knowledge there are rules for this already

https://github.com/conventional-changelog/commitlint/blob/master/%40commitlint/rules/src/footer-empty.ts
https://github.com/conventional-changelog/commitlint/blob/master/%40commitlint/rules/src/body-empty.ts

it looks like we are missing them in documentation

[flozero]

You are right I test it and it works. Thanks ! The doc should be update yeah

[escapedcat]

Created a PR for the docs.
@f3ltron let me know if this is enough, thanks.

[escapedcat]

Didn't see @armano2 already opened a PR... it's merged, closing this. Thanks @armano2 !

[flozero]

Looks good to me thanks