you should use refactor, feat: introduces a new feature to the codebase fix: patches a bug in your codebase refactor: A code change that neither fixes a bug nor adds a feature you can refer to angular/CONTRIBUTING Commit Message Guidelines
If you use build scope consider this option: build(deps): bump React version to “17.0.2” Conventional commits are based on the Angular conventional commits. Angular’s CONTRIBUTING.md states: build: Changes that affect the build system or external dependencies (example scopes: gulp, broccoli, npm)
You can see a short definition in “Git Commit Msg”: chore: updating grunt tasks etc; no production code change It is used in: “Semantic Commit Messages” and in the project “fteem/git-semantic-commits“. git chore “commit-message-here” -> git commit -m ‘chore: commit-message-here’ Modifying the .gitignore would be part of the “chores”. “grunt task” means nothing that an … Read more