Allow running globally installed commitlint and config-angular from anywhere

[zanona]

Expected Behavior

I expect to run echo 'hello world' | commitlint under any directory where that will be analysed against the config-angular preset which was globally installed.

Current Behavior

  $  echo 'hello' | commitlint
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@commitlint/cli/lib/cli.js:67
		throw err;
		^

Error: Cannot find module '@commitlint/config-angular'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:527:15)
    at resolveFileName (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@commitlint/cli/node_modules/resolve-from/index.js:17:39)
    at resolveFrom (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@commitlint/cli/node_modules/resolve-from/index.js:31:9)
    at module.exports (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@commitlint/cli/node_modules/resolve-from/index.js:34:41)
    at resolveId (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@commitlint/cli/node_modules/@commitlint/core/lib/library/resolve-extends.js:108:35)
    at resolveConfig (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@commitlint/cli/node_modules/@commitlint/core/lib/library/resolve-extends.js:99:18)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@commitlint/cli/node_modules/@commitlint/core/lib/library/resolve-extends.js:50:18
    at Array.reduce (<anonymous>)
    at loadExtends (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@commitlint/cli/node_modules/@commitlint/core/lib/library/resolve-extends.js:48:32)
    at resolveExtends (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@commitlint/cli/node_modules/@commitlint/core/lib/library/resolve-extends.js:31:17)

Affected packages

• cli
• core
• prompt
• config-angular

Possible Solution

Follow Less or ESLint which offer options to run their plugins also installed globally.

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

1. npm install -g @commitlint/cli @commitlint/config-angular
2. echo "module.exports = {extends: ['@commitlint/config-angular']}" > ~/commitlint.config.js
3. echo 'hello world' | commitlint

commitlint.config.js

module.exports = {extends: ['@commitlint/config-angular']}

Context

Being able to run commintlint globally without the need to have a config file on every repo I want to run it.

Your Environment

Executable	Version
commitlint --version	5.0.0
git --version	2.13.5
node --version	v8.7.0

[marionebl]

Just reproduced it. This should work, I guess this is broken by our resolve-from usage or inside resolve-from. Needs a bit more investigation.

[marionebl]

Steps to reproduce create this result as of 5.0.1:

npm install -g @commitlint/cli @commitlint/config-angular
echo "module.exports = {extends: ['@commitlint/config-angular']}" > ~/commitlint.config.js
echo 'hello world' | commitlint
⧗   input: hello world
✖   message may not be empty [subject-empty]
✖   type may not be empty [type-empty]
✖   found 2 problems, 0 warnings

echo 'test: some message' | commitlint
⧗   input: test: hello world
✔   found 0 problems, 0 warnings

[zanona]

Awesome! Thanks!

[kqvanity]

@marionebl I currently manually copy the config file from the home dir to each separate repo dir. Can commitlint be configured to use the former right away?

[escapedcat]

@xquilt does this work?:
#613 (comment)