I could only git show the last id in your email David. That means that for most squash and merge the dialog box should be left empty, as the PR title should already have the relevant info (Jira ID + short description), right? And when the PR title does not contain this info, we should edit it prior to commit. Making sure I understand you correctly.
Ilan On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 6:00 AM David Smiley <dsmi...@apache.org> wrote: > Fellow committers, > > When hitting that squash-merge button in GitHub UI, the first line of the > dialog for the commit message is set apart from the rest of the message. > Then it's followed by a multi-line text box for the remaining lines. The > beginning line of the rest of the message is often duplicated or > effectively redundant with that first title line. Please edit your message > so that the redundancy is gone because the whole thing winds up in the > commit message, which is ultimately rather untidy/unclean. > > Most commits are fine. Here are some examples of the problem I speak of > by 3 separate individuals: > > 57a892f896f543913d6b22a81577f69184cd94b6 > 25428013fb0ed8f8fdbebdef3f1d65dea77129c2 > 26075fc1dc06766a9d2af8bd5dd14243c0463a6b > > Thanks, > > ~ David Smiley > Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer > http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley >
