Conventional Commit Standard [0] aims to solve this problem. Added to it is a good ecosystem of tools like Commitlint [1], Commitzen [2], Semantic Release [3] etc.

[0] https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0-beta.2/

[1] https://github.com/conventional-changelog/commitlint

[2] https://github.com/commitizen/cz-cli

[3] https://github.com/semantic-release/semantic-release