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Improvement
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Major
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Linux Ubuntu 3.2.0-58-generic x86_64
Jenkins ver. 1.546
Git Plugin 2.0
Git server plugin 1.3
Jenkins GIT client plugin 1.6.2
I am using the "automatic merging" functionality as described here: "Using Git, Jenkins and pre-build branch merging" ( https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Git+Plugin#GitPlugin-AdvancedFeatures ). The merging is working well. What I wanted is to have some readable information about which two branches are integratet within a commited merge result. The current comments look like:
"Merge commit '6cb5a448d66ab30aca2257123e7c0396fa9fddac' into HEAD"
I would be very useful if more informative commit/push comments could be written like:
"Merged branch 'release/2.4.7' into branch 'develop'. Merge commit '6cb5a448d66ab30aca2257123e7c0396fa9f8dac' into HEAD"
I have not found any customize functionality for this. And using the tag function for this would be an overhead, since "tons" of tags would be created.
Regards
Our team has run into this same issue. When merging manually we use branch names so the merge message is automatically populated as
"Merge <feature-branch> into develop"
The feature branch name is very useful in large projects since it provides significant context around what was merged. We would be happy with either a customized message where we could insert our own message or if the default merge message was changed to use branch names.