Support multiple scopes

[marionebl]

As raised by @virkt25 in https://github.com/marionebl/commitlint/issues/75, there are use cases for multiple scopes in one commit (think mono repositories):

feat(pkg1, pkg2): add some new feature

While downstream tools like commitlint could parse such scopes by splitting with ,, I'd prefer to see that work done in conventional-commits-parser, e.g. by providing an appropriate parser preset.

Things I am not sure about:

• Should msg.scope be string | string[] or just string[]?
• Should we introduce a new optional config key for scope splitting, e.g. scopeDelimiter?

[stevemao]

Should msg.scope be string | string[] or just string[]?

Probably just string[]

Should we introduce a new optional config key for scope splitting, e.g. scopeDelimiter?

I agree...

[dmnsgn]

Hi @bcoe @tommywo ,

Is this still considered a nice to have feature or could it be taken into consideration for the next major release?

I am using multiple scopes in a monorepo and fix(cli) fix(app) get translated as cli) fix(app:.
I have seen people using different variant of multiple scopes:

• type(scope) type(scope)
• type(scope, scope)
• type(scope/scope)

so a scopeDelimiter option or parsing multiple scopes separately would be really convenient.

Thank you

[bcoe]

@dmnsgn we've been gradually moving towards making Conventional Commits a standard, I'm not opposed to supporting multiple scopes, but I would like to see a decision made about supporting it made in Conventional Commits, before we implement anything.

I'm working on setting up a monthly meeting for Conventional Commits.

[WebMex]

Looks like commitlint already supports multiple scopes - conventional-changelog/commitlint#901
Looking forward for the support it by conventional-commits-parser.

[privatenumber]

@bcoe

I saw you organized a meeting for earlier today—and let us know if there are any updates from that—, but I didn't see this topic in the proposal/agenda so I opened a feature request with the Conventional Commits spec so it's on the spec project's radar and for discussions to happen there.

conventional-commits/conventionalcommits.org#302

[bcoe]

@privatenumber @marionebl I suggest opening an issue on the conventional commits repository, and we can put it on the agenda for the next meeting.

[privatenumber]

I did. It's linked above in my previous comment.

[bcoe]

@privatenumber I missed the link, sorry. Thank you, I've added a note to add it to the agenda.