commitlint orb is generating fatal: unknown commit main error

[natanans]

Orb version:

1.0.0

What happened:

The circle ci workflow generates the error that I attached. I also saw that the repo for commitlint repo has a failed circle ci so am gussing there is an issue.

Expected behavior:

It should have linted my commit messages but it just generates the error above and exit

Additional Information:

[ScarellaDev]

@natanans FYI I had the exact same bug after switching our default branch from main to develop because the commitlint/lint job uses a target-branch parameter that uses the default value main if no value is passed (src: https://github.com/conventional-changelog/commitlint-orb/blob/main/src/jobs/lint.yml)

To fix it, you need to pass the target-branch parameter to your job like this:

      - commitlint/lint:
          target-branch: << pipeline.git.branch >>