+1 to this. Saw multiple such cases during the 1.11 release curation. On Mon, Aug 3, 2026 at 9:20 AM Kevin Liu <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 >
