[gmx-developers] Reminder to fix final commit messages in Gitlab

[Eric Irrgang]

It seems like there may be some inconsistent documentation out there, or maybe our version doesn't match that doc. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/26748#note_431644549 indicates there was a quiet logic change to use the _biggest_ commit message instead of the _first_ (multi-line) commit message, and it is creating quite a stir.

So one additional behavior developers can adopt to mitigate the problem Paul points out: make fix-up commit messages small. (If the gist of the MR has changed dramatically from the initial push, Paul's advice is probably good anyway!)

> On Oct 13, 2020, at 2:43 PM, Berk Hess <hess at kth.se> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Their documentation on https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/squash_and_merge.html still says:
> The squashed commit’s commit message will be either:
> 
> 	• Taken from the first multi-line commit message in the merge.
> 	• The merge request’s title if no multi-line commit message is found.
> 
> 
> I noticed an option appearing now to change the commit message. That is new so something has changed.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Berk
> 
> 
> On 13/10/2020 14.41, Paul bauer wrote:
>> Hello @ all gmx developers 
>> 
>> it seems that Gitlab changed the policy again for picking commit messages for squashed commits, with the latest message being picked now. 
>> 
>> I want to remind you to please fix the final commit message, because we are having a large number of misleading commit messages in the tree now. 
>> I hope this will not change again without any notice in the future. 
>> 
>> Cheers 
>> 
>> Paul 
>> 
> 
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