fix: `commitlint --last` fails

[Michael Collins]

Steps to Reproduce

I created a valid commit message and used the npx commitlint --last --verbose command to validate the commit message as shown here. I received the following errors:

• subject may not be empty [subject-empty]
• type may not be empty [type-empty]

The commit message was:

ci: validate commit messages

I added development dependencies on commitlint and husky. commitlint is
being used to validate commit messages conform to the Conventional
Commits format and follow the configured rules for the project. husky is
being used to run commitlint on every commit using the commit_msg Git
hook.

I created the setup.sh script to automate the steps to install the
project dependencies after cloning the repository.

I updated README.md with instructions on cloning the repository and
running the setup.sh script. I created the software requirements
document to list the software that developers need to install in their
development environments in order to contribute to the product.

I created CONTRIBUTING.md with instructions on how to contribute to the
product. I added instructions on commit signing,
writing commit messages, and the workflows for bug fixes or implementing
new features.

I created the commitlint GitHub Actions workflow to run commitlint to
validate commit messages for the main branch or pull requests for the
main branch.

My configuration is:

export default {
    extends: ['@commitlint/config-conventional'],
    rules: {
        'body-max-line-length': [1, 'always', 72],
        'body-case': [1, 'always', 'sentence-case'],
        'footer-max-line-length': [1, 'always', 72],
        'header-max-length': [2, 'always', 52],
        'scope-enum': [2, 'always', [
            'android',
            'api',
            'flutter',
            'ios'
        ]],
        'type-enum': [2, 'always', [
            'build',
            'change',
            'chore',
            'ci',
            'deprecate',
            'docs',
            'feat',
            'fix',
            'perf',
            'refactor',
            'remove',
            'revert',
            'security',
            'style',
            'test'
        ]]
    }
};

Running npx commitlint --from HEAD~1 --to HEAD --verbose succeeds.

### Current Behavior

```sh
✖   subject may not be empty [subject-empty]
✖   type may not be empty [type-empty]

✖   found 2 problems, 0 warnings

Expected Behavior

Commitlint should succeed and validate that the commit message is valid.

Affected packages

• cli
• core
• prompt
• config-angular

Possible Solution

No response

Context

No response

commitlint --version

@commitlint/cli@19.2.0

git --version

2.44.0

node --version

20.11.1

[escapedcat]

/cc @knocte

[Andres G. Aragoneses]

@mfcollins3 thanks for reporting this bug, we'll look at it on Monday.

[Pedro Cerejo]

This might still be happening:

npx commitlint --last                               
⧗   input: "fix: f around

test
"
✖   subject may not be empty [subject-empty]
✖   type may not be empty [type-empty]

✖   found 2 problems, 0 warnings
ⓘ   Get help: https://github.com/conventional-changelog/commitlint/#what-is-commitlint

npx commitlint --from HEAD~1 --to HEAD --verbose
⧗   input: fix: f around
✔   found 0 problems, 0 warnings

[Andres G. Aragoneses]

@schimini can you give us access to that repo? can we fork it or...?

[Pedro Cerejo]

@knocte yes check here: https://github.com/schimini/strapi

happened basically with all my commits.
but running with the from and to flags it worked properly

[webwarrior-ws]

@schimini
I can't run commitlint against your repo at all.
I get an error:

file:///home/ubuntu/.npm/_npx/16d437951fea4b5e/node_modules/@commitlint/cli/lib/cli.js:132
        throw err;
        ^

Error: Cannot find module '@commitlint/types'

If I try to install @commitlint/types, I get this:

npm ERR! code EUNSUPPORTEDPROTOCOL
npm ERR! Unsupported URL Type "workspace:": workspace:*

Node.js v18.19.1
npm v10.2.4
Ubuntu 22.04

[Pedro Cerejo]

Hmm that's weird :o
What the version you have for the cached commitliint?

my setup is:

node --version
v18.19.0
strapi % npm --version
10.2.3
strapi % npx commitlint --version 
@commitlint/cli@19.2.0

[webwarrior-ws]

@schimini

npx commitlint --version 
@commitlint/cli@19.5.0

[Pedro Cerejo]

@webwarrior-ws I am clueless

I tried the latest even and it ran with no problems

strapi % npx commitlint@latest --from HEAD~1 --to HEAD --verbose                          
Need to install the following packages:
commitlint@19.5.0
Ok to proceed? (y) y
⧗   input: chore: run prettier write on clean schema attributes
✔   found 0 problems, 0 warnings

[webwarrior-ws]

@schimini
Does --last work with the latest version?

[Pedro Cerejo]

@webwarrior-ws ha ha!
It does. Disregard my comments! Sorry to waste your time.