Packaging

Gitlint consists of 2 python packages: gitlint and gitlint-core.

The gitlint package is just a wrapper package around gitlint-core[trusted-deps] which strictly pins gitlint dependencies to known working versions.

There are scenarios where users (or OS package managers) may want looser dependency requirements. In these cases, users can just install gitlint-core directly (pip install gitlint-core).

Issue 162 has all the background of how we got to the decision to split gitlint in 2 packages.

To build the packages locally:

# gitlint
hatch build
hatch clean # cleanup

# gitlint-core
cd gitlint-core
hatch build
hatch clean # cleanup