From 1731a9e68c97078f3eb5167a9a4f874df350b185 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adrian Schmidt <adrian.schmidt@lime.tech>
Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 09:43:55 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] feat(types): add support for additional custom types

This implementation does not overwrite all existing types.
---
 README.md | 20 +++++++++++++++++++-
 index.js  |  6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b59d9c90..a4143d0a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -33,12 +33,30 @@ Like commitizen, you specify the configuration of cz-conventional-changelog thro
                 "title": "Features"
               },
               ...
-            }
+            },
+            "additionalTypes": {}
         }
     }
 // ...
 }
 ```
+
+The `additionalTypes` property can be used to add custom types in addition to those defined by **conventional-commit-types**:
+
+```
+    "config": {
+        "commitizen": {
+            "path": "./node_modules/cz-conventional-changelog",
+            "additionalTypes": {
+                "mycustomtype": {
+                    "description": "A custom commit type for custom changes",
+                    "title": "My Custom Changes"
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+```
+
 ### Environment variables
 
 The following environment varibles can be used to override any default configuration or package.json based configuration.
diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index d86155bc..02ec59e4 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -6,7 +6,11 @@ var configLoader = require('commitizen').configLoader;
 
 var config = configLoader.load() || {};
 var options = {
-  types: config.types || conventionalCommitTypes.types,
+  types: Object.assign(
+    {},
+    config.types || conventionalCommitTypes.types,
+    config.additionalTypes
+  ),
   defaultType: process.env.CZ_TYPE || config.defaultType,
   defaultScope: process.env.CZ_SCOPE || config.defaultScope,
   defaultSubject: process.env.CZ_SUBJECT || config.defaultSubject,