Re: Welcome to GitLab!

Ben Gamari writes:

Matthew Pickering writes:

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Does this mean that the commit message doesn't come from the MR description?

Correct. Like GitHub, the commit messages that make it into the version control history are precisely the commit messages of the commits in your branch.

I should note that the ability to specify the commit message when squashing is an open feature request [1]. It's not currently prioritized but I will bring it up with upstream. Cheers, - Ben [1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/1510