Re: improving our workflow with better tools - let's test things.

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 21/10/13 14:25, Carl Sorensen wrote:
> And based on Joseph's comments, it appears that I may be misusing GitLab a
> little bit -- we've not been using good descriptions of the merge requests
> (in fact, we may have not been using *any* descriptions of the merge
> requests) so the merge commits only have the git-generated statement about
> the merge.  I'll try doing a better job on merge request descriptions and
> see if I like that better.

No, you were right -- it's a current limitation of GitLab, and a very irritating 
one at that.  See:
http://feedback.gitlab.com/forums/176466-general/suggestions/3489764-allowing-custom-commit-message-for-merge-requests

I think one workaround might be to perform the merge manually -- I'll let you 
know how this goes.

GitHub does this in a much nicer way: the merge commit message references the 
pull request ID and includes at least the title of the pull request, so that you 
can always find the associated discussion and have at least an overview of what 
the merge does.