If the header contains ! (exclamation mark) then the type and subject are treated as empty

[almaceleste]

If the header contains ! (exclamation mark) in type/scope part (to indicate breaking changes), then the type and subject are treated as empty.
This behavior occurs even if I disable subject-exclamation-mark rule:

        "subject-exclamation-mark": [0, "always"],

[joshbolduc]

Hmm, I can't seem to reproduce. Does the same thing happen if you use commitlint directly? If not, what version of commitlint do you have installed?

You could also try enabling commitlint.preferBundledLibraries and seeing if that changes anything.

[almaceleste]

commitlint CLI finds no errors in such COMMIT_MESSAGE file.
but commitliint extension does.
enabled commitlint.preferBundledLibraries option does not change this behavior.

commitlint CLI: 19.6.0
commitlint extension: 2.6.0
vscode: 1.95.3

upd: but if I put double exclamation marks (!!) to the header, commitlint CLI behaves the same as the extention.

[joshbolduc]

I still don't see this behavior myself, but there is a suspiciously similar sounding issue in the commitlint repo.

[almaceleste]

yeah, looks similar, but I do not use semantic-release yet, and in my case it's the extension that complains, not the commitlint itself.