Windows issues about gitlint

[jorisroovers]

Keeping this open, as we might still consider this in the future.

[jorisroovers]

gitlint currently doesn't support Windows. No concrete plans either, might be something for the future.

thanks

[Kristinita]

gitlint currently doesn't support Windows.

@jorisroovers , I think, it would be nice, if you will show it at the beginning of README and documentation, that Windows users do not waste their time.

Thanks.

[jorisroovers]

Made some time to work on this a bit. Relevant commits: cc5e6d8 and 20ac439.

I'm not a Windows user myself, but from the basic testing I did on a Windows 10 VM using Python 2.7 and Python 3.7, basic linting functionality seems to work. I'd appreciate anyone doing additional testing to confirm its working and report any bugs they find. I've already merged this work into master.

Things that work:

# lint latest commit
gitlint
gitlint -v --ignore T3,T5 # Options seem to work too

# Pass a message via stdin
echo "WIP: foöbar" > gitlint
git log -1 --pretty=%B | gitlint

# Commit ranges
gitlint --commits HEAD~2^..HEAD

However, I've also found a number of issues (some worse than others):
https://github.com/jorisroovers/gitlint/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Awindows

I'll be releasing this (marked as experimental) as part of the 0.12.0 release later this week.

[ttwister]

edit(jorisroovers): Moved this comment to a new issue - see #107

Hello,

I tried creating user-defined rules on a Windows host (using Git-Bash) and those are not discovered.
I have created a CommitRule UC1 based on one of your examples.

Do you experience the same behavior?

$ gitlint --debug --extra-path myextensions/rules.py
DEBUG: gitlint.cli To report issues, please visit https://github.com/jorisroovers/gitlint/issues
DEBUG: gitlint.cli Platform: Windows-10-10.0.17763
DEBUG: gitlint.cli Python version: 2.7.16 (v2.7.16:413a49145e, Mar  4 2019, 01:37:19) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)]
DEBUG: gitlint.cli Git version: git version 2.18.0.windows.1
DEBUG: gitlint.cli Gitlint version: 0.12.0
DEBUG: gitlint.cli GITLINT_USE_SH_LIB: [NOT SET]
DEBUG: gitlint.cli Configuration
config-path: C:\Users\xyz\path\.gitlint
[GENERAL]
extra-path: C:\Users\xyz\path\myextensions\rules.py
contrib: [u'contrib-title-conventional-commits']
ignore:
ignore-merge-commits: True
ignore-fixup-commits: True
ignore-squash-commits: True
ignore-stdin: True
verbosity: 3
debug: True
target: C:\Users\xyz\path
[RULES]
  I1: ignore-by-title
     ignore=all
     regex=^Release(.*)
  I2: ignore-by-body
     ignore=all
     regex=None
  T1: title-max-length
     line-length=70
[...]
  CT1: contrib-title-conventional-commits
     types=build,ci,doc,feat,fix,perf,refactor,style,test
[...]

[jorisroovers]

Since gitlint supports windows now and this issue is about nothing specific, I'm closing it