Keep co-authorship when edititing commit message when applying suggestions
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Release notes
Better recognise contributors' contributions by capturing co-authorship even if the commit message is changed when applying suggestions.
Problem to solve
If a number of contributors leave suggestions on a merge request and they are added to batch. I have two options:
- Add a really non-descriptive commit message "Applying 3 suggestions to 2 files" with co-authorship
- Add my own commit message, but the co-authorship disappears
I can manually add co-authorship back, but this takes time and involves double checking who submitted suggestions, and then getting their email and writing it in the correct format.
Intended users
Sorry, I didn't read all of the personas!
Main user:
Users accepting suggestions with clear commit messages.
Main beneficiary:
User experience goal
This improves user experience for two main groups:
- Users accepting suggestions - Saving them time not manually re-adding attribution of co-authorship,
- Contributors making suggestions - Attribution of co-authorship can be meaningful especially to new contributors. This tends to get deleted if people are not aware that it isn't automatically appended.
Proposal
When you start typing a commit message now it deletes the entire auto-generated message. It would be good to delete the applying N suggestions to M files but keep the co-authorship lines.
Further details
None
Permissions and Security
Shouldn't have any security implications
Documentation
I believe this would be expected behaviour, so I don't believe it would need extra documentation?
Availability & Testing
Available Tier
Free please
Feature Usage Metrics
If you really wanted to track it, you could see if co-authorship messages increase.
What does success look like, and how can we measure that?
Happy new contributors being accepted.