doc: ensure collaborators validate commits

bmeck · jasnell · commit eb3fee1b87ba · 2017-10-13T13:30:06.000-07:00
This should be done every time a collaborator pushes a commit. PR-URL: #16162 Reviewed-By: Joyee Cheung <joyeec9h3@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net> Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io> Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com> Reviewed-By: Tobias Nießen <tniessen@tnie.de> Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com> Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com>
diff --git a/COLLABORATOR_GUIDE.md b/COLLABORATOR_GUIDE.md
@@ -517,6 +517,13 @@ Run tests (`make -j4 test` or `vcbuild test`). Even though there was a
 successful continuous integration run, other changes may have landed on master
 since then, so running the tests one last time locally is a good practice.
 
+Validate that the commit message is properly formatted using
+[core-validate-commit](https://github.com/evanlucas/core-validate-commit).
+
+```text
+$ git rev-list upstream/master...HEAD | xargs core-validate-commit
+```
+
 Time to push it:
 
 ```text
