git commit error: invalid commit message

Question

I've been searching Google and cannot find anything on this error.

Here is the full error:

git commit -m "update ui" INVALID COMMIT MSG: does not match "type scope: subject" ! was: "update ui" Note: scope must be only letters.

Eric · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-27 08:36:20Z

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You have a commit-msg hook on your system that is enforcing a format on your commit message. This is presumably company policy of some kind.

answered Nov 27, 2013 at 8:36

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Correct. And in this case, the required format is scope: message where scope must be only letters (I am guessing no digits or whitespace).

Thanks, this was definitely the case.