Cz-cli: Cannot read property 'load' of undefined

[hristijankiko]

I attempted to install and set up commitizen to my project for the first time, but it seems like it is throwing a strange error.

> npx git-cz

Cannot read property 'load' of undefined
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1

This is a fresh install and no custom configuration. This is what is in my package.json config

"config": {
    "commitizen": {
      "path": "./node_modules/cz-conventional-changelog"
    }
  }

I had a look through the code and I suspect this is the line where the error is thrown

If anyone has any idea why it would be throwing this error please let me know.

[duartealexf]

I also just ran into this and have no idea why this is happening... I've never seen it before.
I downgraded to 3.1.2 (with cz-conventional-changelog @ 2.1.0) and it's working fine.

[Techn1x]

Having the same problem here. Upgraded to 4.1.0 and started seeing the error. Rolling back to ~4.0.5 seems to work.

[Techn1x]

To help searchability this is the error I get on 4.1.0

yarn git-cz        
yarn run v1.22.0
$ ./node_modules/.bin/git-cz
Cannot read property 'load' of undefined
error Command failed with exit code 1.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.

[Techn1x]

Looks like the configLoader.load() method was removed
https://github.com/commitizen/cz-cli/commit/6ef8afa7600da429a473290a917003177a2ec00a#diff-a7267e0501a0781d4b4f795e54454767

But in 4.1.0 there is still a reference to it
https://github.com/commitizen/cz-cli/blob/f7982d38c0882e7e91a011bfd409e2262858bfb1/src/cli/git-cz.js#L17

[hristijankiko]

@Techn1x I'm pretty sure its not the method that's undefined, its the configLoader itself.

[Wentong-Liu]

same issue here

[xmlking]

recently I am having various issues with commitizen I cannot commit my code anymore with git cz

[jimthedev]

Seems like perhaps https://github.com/commitizen/cz-cli/pull/729 modified the loader in some unexpected way @LinusU?

[jimthedev]

For anyone having problems please downgrade to 4.0.5 for now.

[LinusU]

🙈 sorry about this, investigating!

[LinusU]

This PR should fix it: #733

Will merge as soon as it is green. Super sorry for this everyone, I didn't realise that this was part of the public api.

Will also have a look at why the tests didn't catch this, it seems like they do now that a new version is published. I believe that this is because the tests install from npm, a good approach is probably to change this to npm pack and then npm install /path/to/pack/file.gz instead.

Hopefully a new version should be published in ~15 minutes!

[LinusU]

This should be fixed in version 4.1.1, super sorry for the breakage!

Also sorry for the slow response, shouldn't release and then go to bed I guess 🙈

[fahimmahmoodmir]

now I have an issue with a different error after updating to 4.1.1:
The "path" argument must be of type string. Received type undefined

[LinusU]

@fahimmahmoodmir sorry about that, it's being fixed in #735 which is currently being released.

I've written up here on why I didn't catch this when developing this, and how I will avoid releasing broken builds in the future here: https://github.com/commitizen/cz-cli/issues/734#issuecomment-624017625

edit: released as 4.1.2