regular expression support

[scarf005]

hi, i'd like to apply conventional PR titles for our project, and thought it'd be neat to define valid scopes by regex. for example:

scopes:
  - 'mods/(\w+)'

would match titles such as

feat(mods/foo): ...
feat(mods/bar): ...

i'm interested in opening a PR for this feature.

relevent lines:

semantic-prs/functions/src/is-message-semantic.ts

Lines 36 to 37 in 2915f0c

	const isScopeValid = !scopes || !scope || scope.split(',').every(scope => scopes.includes(scope));
	const isTypeValid = (types.length > 0 ? types : commitTypes).includes(type);

[Ezard]

Hey @scarf005, this is a neat idea, but do you have any thoughts on how to determine whether a scope that a user has provided is a regex or not?

Maybe as well as the scopes array, there could also be a scopeRegexes array? This would prevent non-regex scopes from accidentally being parsed as regexes

Do you have any thoughts on this, or suggestions for a better way of handling it?

[scarf005]

i think scopeRrgexes could work

[hsundar-git]

@Ezard Any plans to implement this? I am also looking for regex support for scopes.

[Ezard]

Had a think about this today, and unfortunately allowing users to specify their own regexes opens things up for abuse (there are some things that you can do with regexes that require loads of computational power; see here for examples)

I would be open to something a bit more constrained though, e.g.

scopes:
  - mods:
      allowChildren: true

or something like this, if that would be suitable?