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Is this project affiliated with the cz-cli project?¶

It is not affiliated.

Both are used for similar purposes, parsing commits, generating changelog and version we presume. Our Commitizen project is written in python to make integration easier for python projects, whereas cz-cli is written in JavaScript and serves the JS packages.

They differ a bit in design, not sure if cz-cli does any of this, but these are some things you can do with our Commitizen:

• create custom rules, version bumps and changelog generation. By default, we use the popular conventional commits (I think cz-cli allows this).
• single package, install one thing and it will work. cz-cli is a monorepo, but you have to install different dependencies as far as I know.
• pre-commit integration
• works on any language project, as long as you create the .cz.toml or cz.toml file.

Where do they cross paths?

If you are using conventional commits in your git history, then you could swap one with the other in theory.

Regarding the name, cz-cli came first, they used the word Commitizen first. When this project was created originally, the creator read "be a good commitizen", and thought it was just a cool word that made sense, and this would be a package that helps you be a good "commit citizen".