+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
>

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