Change Request: switch to PR title for default commit message

[mdjermanovic]

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What problem do you want to solve?

Currently, when there's only one commit on the PR, default commit message presented when merging a pull request with squash is the message of that commit.

Therefore, in such cases (when there's only one commit), if the format of the message is incorrect, we ask the contributor to update the commit message. Sometimes we fix the message manually while merging, which is error-prone because there's no validation at that point. Sometimes we update a technically valid message to better describe the change, which is again error-prone because there's no validation.

What do you think is the correct solution?

GitHub now provides options to always default to the PR title:

The proposal is to switch to "Default to pull request title and commit details".

That would simplify the process for everyone - whenever we need to change the message, we just update the PR title and let the bot validate it.

Participation

• I am willing to submit a pull request for this change.

Additional comments

Tasks would be to update the bot to always check the PR title, and then update settings in all repositories.

[nzakas]

Agreed, let's do it.

[snitin315]

Yes, let's do it in all repos.

[mdjermanovic]

I'm working on the bot update.

[mdjermanovic]

The bot update has been merged and I've just updated the settings in all repositories, so I think we can close this now.