It would be great to have a custom message on failure

[j0tt]

Team loves this, but I get dms because it just says "validation failed". it would be nice to output the expected format.

[sumits-systango]

Hey @j0tt
Thanks for the interest. Are you looking for a way to customise and configure the validation output message? What kind of messages formats are you thinking of?

[j0tt]

For us it would be nice to have a customs output so we could say something like: “try something like [user story|task|bug] 34635: I did a good thing to this code”

We’re trying to not be too prescriptive with format and just make sure there’s an issue number and the issue type are in the message.

[MSFT-Chris-Barrett]

+1 to having a custom message with an example of a valid format. Just being told "your PR title is wrong" leaves me at "okay, I need to change the PR title... does it need beachball emoji added to become valid?" For a silly, exagerrated example of how the open-ended message doesn't help lead a user to making a successful commit/PR request.

Edit: if there's a regex pattern being used to determine valid/invalid, could that pattern be written out in the error message? It may be a little human-unfriendly, but assuming most people reading the error message will be programmers, it's more helpful than no feedback.

[sumits-systango]

This is done as part of release 2.2.0.