The only thing to watch out for is that the default message is the *union* of all individual commit messages, so if you blindly hit “Squash and Merge” you’ll get an enormous, poorly-formatted commit message.
I *think* one of my colleagues wrote a chrome plugin that resets the message textbook to empty, but I’m unsure. I can check up on that. Allen On April 6, 2018 at 08:59:10, James E. King, III (jk...@apache.org) wrote: > On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 8:47 AM, Allen George wrote: > > > Hi Jim, > > > > 3. Does “squash and merge” not allow us to change the commit message? > > We use GitHub at work, and I was always able to change the commit > > message just before squashing. > > > > Best, > > Allen > > > > > I haven't used "Squash and Merge" before in github. I just tried it on > that example PR > and it allowed me to change the title, add the "Client" tag (since we > require it still) > and commit to master all from github! It also retained the author > information. > I assume this will allow us to deal with unruly commits consisting of > multiple ids > as well so we can maintain a clean history. Thanks for the tip! > > - Jim >
