Commit messages

Avoid duplications and redundancies
- When you commit to the testbed repository it is not necessary to use a prefix testbed: (e.g. Remove all easter eggs instead of testbed: remove all easter eggs
- When you commit to the testbed repository, it is not necessary to say that you are committing to the testbed repository (e.g. Remove all easter eggs instead of Remove all easter eggs in the testbed repository)

Squash merge

When using squash merge, the commit message must always be revised manually.

The following commit message from a squash merge of a PR with 3 commits makes no sense.

Reposistory for  meeting minutes

* Reposistory for  meeting mintues

Signed-off-by: Mathias Fechner <fechner@osism.tech>

* insert new line at the end

Signed-off-by: Mathias Fechner <fechner@osism.tech>

* yaml-linting

Signed-off-by: Mathias Fechner <fechner@osism.tech>

This commit message should look like the following after the squash merge. Commits that were added in a PR just to make the CI happy do not need to be mentioned in the final commit message.

Multiple lines with a signed-off-by from the same author don’t make sense either.

Reposistory for  meeting minutes

Signed-off-by: Mathias Fechner <fechner@osism.tech>

References to issues

We work with the issues from GitHub. The issues can be referenced in commit messages. See https://docs.github.com/en/issues/tracking-your-work-with-issues/linking-a-pull-request-to-an-issue.

To close an issue via a commit, Closes #NUMBER_OF_THE_ISSUE is used as the last line above the Signed-off-by line. If issue is referenced in another repository Closes osism/NAME_OF_THE_REPOSITORY#NUMBER_OF_THE_ISSUE accordingly .

If a commit belongs to an issue, but does not close it directly, Related to #NUMBER_OF_THE_ISSUE or Part of #NUMBER_OF_THE_ISSUE is used.

The reference to an issue is never placed directly in the title of the commit message.