support config file

[zyy7259]

support .czrc or cz.config.js config file through https://github.com/davidtheclark/cosmiconfig

[prometheas]

I must first say that it's very courteous indeed that commitizen at least looks for its configs under a top-level config key in package.json, rather than forcing us to jam another bespoke key name in that file like so many other packages do, but… definitely this, please!

[lucascono]

Please, implement cosmiconfig. It is very useful to be able to highlight syntax in text editors according to file extensions.

[Nargonath]

Another use case for this is when you want to gather all your configuration into one package ala react-scripts.

[fsmaia]

I would love this too! Any help wanted?

[travi]

is there something special desired about cosmiconfig that isn't handled currently? i've been using .czrc files in my projects for quite a while. here are the currently supported sources:

cz-cli/src/commitizen/configLoader.js

Line 6 in a6adb3b

var configs = ['.czrc', '.cz.json', 'package.json'];

[Nargonath]

From what I remembered since my last post, what I wanted to do is "import" my configuration from a package instead of having it in the root folder i.e for prettier I can do that:

// .prettierrc.js
const config = require('my-prettier-config');

module.exports = config;

From what I understand such behavior was not possible at least in 2019 when I commented.

[fsmaia]

I found out that the configuration is read in the presets/styles instead of cz-cli. Example:
https://github.com/commitizen/cz-conventional-changelog/blob/master/index.js#L7

[Nargonath]

I'm not sure what you mean by that.

[fsmaia]

I mean that configLoader is used by cz-cli to determine the preset, but preset with additional configurations must also call configLoader to load them, otherwise rc file configurations won't be read.

But IMHO this issue's main purpose is the lack of documentation concerning configuration files. A simple phrase in README like: "this project uses cosmiconfig" would be enough.

[prometheas]

Yes, agree with @fsmaia that the heart of this issue is the lack of documentation around the package's support of config files, though it's hard to know without confirmation from its creator, @zyy7259.

That said, assuming this is correct, the PR above (assuming it's approved and merged) does seem allow this issue to be closed…

[commitizen-bot]

🎉 This issue has been resolved in version 4.1.3 🎉

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[pmcelhaney]

For anyone following this thread I just created a PR to support cosmiconfig attached to #773