Like the idea On Mon, Aug 3, 2026 at 9:31 AM Andrei Tserakhau via dev < [email protected]> wrote:
> +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 >> > -- John Zhuge
