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+// See: https://commitlint.js.org/#/reference-configuration for details
+// on the configuration file
+module.exports = {
+  extends: ['@commitlint/config-conventional'],
+
+  rules: {
+    'type-enum':
+      [2, 'always', [
+        'revert', 'feat', 'fix', 'perf', 'docs', 'test', 'build', 'refactor', 'style', 'chore', 'temp', 'ci',
+      ]],
+
+    // Default rules we want to suppress. The available list of rules can be
+    // found in https://commitlint.js.org/#/reference-rules
+    'body-leading-blank': [0, "always"],
+    'body-max-line-length': [0, "always"],
+    'footer-max-line-length': [0, "always"],
+    'footer-leading-blank': [0, "always"],
+    'subject-case': [0, "always", []],
+    'subject-full-stop': [0, "never", '.'],
+  },
+
+  ignores: [
+    // Allow GitHub revert messages, like:
+    //    Revert "introduce a bug"
+    //    Revert "introduce a bug" (#1234)
+    message => /^Revert ".*"( \(#\d+\))?/.test(message),
+
+    // BTW: commitlint has a built-in list of ignores which are also applied.
+    // Those include the typical "Merged" messages, so those are implicitly ignored:
+    // https://github.com/conventional-changelog/commitlint/blob/master/%40commitlint/is-ignored/src/defaults.ts
+  ],
+};