git-std

From commit to release. One tool for conventional commits, versioning, changelog, and git hooks management.

Stop juggling five tools to enforce commit standards, bump versions, and manage hooks. git-std replaces commitizen, commitlint, standard-version, husky, and lefthook with a single, fast binary — zero runtime dependencies.

Features

• Structured commits — interactive prompt for type, scope, and description, or non-interactive with --message
• Commit validation — lint messages inline, from file, or across a revision range
• Version bumping — semver, calver, and patch-only schemes, calculated automatically from commit history
• Changelog generation — incremental or full, built from conventional commits
• Git hooks — install, enable/disable, and auto-format staged files safely before commit
• Lock file sync — automatically update Cargo, npm, yarn, pnpm, deno, uv, and poetry lock files after bump
• Custom version files — update any file during bump using regex patterns
• Configuration — .git-std.toml with sensible defaults, inspectable via config list/get
• Shell completions — bash, zsh, fish
• AI agent skills — install commit and bump skills for your AI coding agent with npx skills add driftsys/git-std
• CI-ready — JSON output, non-zero exit codes, no interactive prompts in pipelines

Quick start

git std hook install                # set up hooks
git std commit                       # interactive commit
git std bump                         # bump + changelog + tag
git push --follow-tags

Invoked as git std via git’s subcommand discovery.