Option to explicitly override commit title and message when using GitHub auto-merge

[jalaziz]

Tell us more.

GitHub provides an option to use the PR title and description as the default commit message.

Using this option can be valuable for most human-generated PRs. However, Renovate PR descriptions contain a lot of formatting and comments that don't really belong in a commit message.

GitHub allows you to explicitly set the commit message when using auto-merge. Renovate should provide an option to explicitly set the auto-merge commit message to that of the underlying PR commit.

[secustor]

You can set the PR title yourself. https://docs.renovatebot.com/configuration-options/#prtitle

[rarkins]

I guess you're not using merge queues? Note the NOTEs below:

[jalaziz]

Not for renovate PRs.

[rarkins]

I thought merge queue is enabled repository-wide and not possible to pick and choose based on the author?

[rarkins]

In your current case, is the "commitHeadline" correct? (e.g. GitHub uses the PR title)

So is it really just a problem of commitBody, where GitHub is embedding the entire PR body from Renovate PRs?

[jalaziz]

I thought merge queue is enabled repository-wide and not possible to pick and choose based on the author?

We use a different merge queue (Graphite) and it's opt in per PR. Even if we used Graphite's merge queue though, it will use the PR body and title to honor the setting in GitHub.

So is it really just a problem of commitBody, where GitHub is embedding the entire PR body from Renovate PRs?

Yes, exactly. The title is correct but the body is an issue.

I'm happy to attempt a fix, just haven't had the time. At first glance it didn't seem like the commit information was available where the mutation is built, but I didn't check to see how easy it would be to pass it through.

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