+1. It's not very obvious that PR title may diverge from commit title now.
Also for some PR-s there's a need to slight adjustment for scope and in such cases reviewer may ask to alter PR description, but syncing this into resulted commit message is a bit too much and people may skip this part. Best, Andrei пн, 3 авг. 2026 г., 18:20 Kevin Liu <[email protected]>: > Hey folks, > > I’m proposing that we change the GitHub squash-merge settings to populate > the commit title and body from the PR’s title and description. > > The current settings may use the branch’s commit title and messages > instead. This can produce unhelpful squash commits—such as “Initial > commit”—and cause the commit history on main to differ from the PR > content that was reviewed. > > Using the PR title and description would provide more consistent and > useful commit history, regardless of how many commits a PR contains. > > More details: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/issues/17467 > > Thoughts? > > Thanks, > Kevin >
