On Thu, 23 Oct 2025, Ryan Carsten Schmidt wrote:
On Oct 23, 2025, at 14:08, Fred Wright wrote:
I noticed that my two most recent commits have only the summary line of
their commit messages as merged. When I saw the first one, I thought I
might have screwed up an edit, but I didn't think that doing it twice
was likely. Looking at the current master, the last commit message
with a body was e19d3b9ff8167b60cf0698e611824444c4b66398 from
yesterday. Is some script now dropping commit-message bodies?
No automated script that I'm aware of.
When a PR is merged, the person doing the merging can choose to accept
the commits as provided or squash all commits into one and reword the
commit message; I suspect this is what happened to your recent PRs.
No - each PR consisted of a single commit.
When doing this, we want to eliminate superfluous wording that was only
relevant while a PR was being developed, such as a series of commits
that correct problems with previous commits, while retaining useful
information they describes the PR as a whole.
I never submit PRs in that state, but my commit messages pretty much
always contain additional information, including how the change was
tested.
It also seems unlikely that *nobody* submitted commits in the past 24
hours that contained nothing but the summary.
Fred Wright
