Hey Sean,
I just gave a try to Github CLI and merged a PR, using the command:

*gh pr merge 3600 --squash --body "HDFS-16290.--Message--"*


Unfortunately this also has the same result, nothing different.


-Ayush

On Tue, 26 Oct 2021 at 21:25, Sean Busbey <sbus...@apple.com> wrote:

> If you add a line in the commit message that the commit closes a given PR
> # then GitHub will annotate the PR as related to the specific commit and
> close it for you.
>
> i.e. you can add “closes #3454” to the commit message body and then PR
> 3454 will close and link to that commit when it hits the default branch.
>
> I believe these docs describing associating a GitHub issue via a commit
> message also apply to associating commits to pull requests, if you are
> interested in what specific phrases work:
>
>
> https://docs.github.com/en/issues/tracking-your-work-with-issues/linking-a-pull-request-to-an-issue#linking-a-pull-request-to-an-issue-using-a-keyword
>
>
> Has anyone tried handling a squash merge via the GitHub CLI tooling rather
> than the web or plain git tooling? Does it similarly overwrite committer
> metadata?
>
> e.g. the GitHub CLI example from the merging PRs docs?
>
>
> https://docs.github.com/en/github/collaborating-with-pull-requests/incorporating-changes-from-a-pull-request/merging-a-pull-request#merging-a-pull-request
>
>
>
> On Oct 25, 2021, at 9:57 AM, Szilárd Németh <snem...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Ayush,
> Thanks a lot for your response.
>
>
> Yahh, remember chasing Github support regarding this last year and they
> reverted back that they are aware of this and have an internal jira for
> this but can not comment upon how much time it would take. (As of now 1
> year & counting)
>
> So if I get this right: Their internal jira is in the same untouched state
> and they wouldn't make any progress?
>
>
> Just in case you want to use the CLI & still make the PR marked as merged,
>
> A dirty way to do this is:
> Pull the changes to your local.
> Rebase & Squash all commits, in the commit message in the end put actual
> the PR number, eg. #1234,
> force push to the PR, that is the contributors fork, this will update his
> PR and then merge the Branch to trunk in your local and push. It marks
> the PR as merged, at least last year it did when I tried. :-)
>
>
> Thanks for this dirty hack :)
> Probably I will refrain from doing this, I don't like to force push if it's
> not "mandatory".
> Anyway, if the community is fine with it, I will continue to commit from
> the CLI and close the PR, even though it's not that convenient.
>
>
> Best,
> Szilard
>
>
>
> On Wed, 20 Oct 2021 at 05:07, Ayush Saxena <ayush...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yahh, remember chasing Github support regarding this last year and they
> reverted back that they are aware of this and have an internal jira for
> this but can not comment upon how much time it would take. (As of now 1
> year & counting)
>
> As far as I remember this is with squash & commit only. If you do say a
> rebase & merge. The commit email id is preserved. But other options we have
> blocked.
>
> I think most of the projects are using squash & merge and many people
> won’t be ok to use CLI rather than UI
> So, I don’t think we have an ALT here.
>
> Just in case you want to use the CLI & still make the PR marked as merged,
> A dirty way to do this is:
> Pull the changes to your local.
> Rebase & Squash all commits, in the commit message in the end put actual
> the PR number, eg. #1234,
> force push to the PR, that is the contributors fork, this will update his
> PR and then merge the Branch to trunk in your local and push. It marks the
> PR as merged, at least last year it did when I tried. :-)
>
> -Ayush
>
>
> On 20-Oct-2021, at 3:27 AM, Szilárd Németh <snem...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I noticed something strange in our commits, in particular the committer
> field is not reflecting the user who committed the commit.
>
> *1. First, I wanted to check Gergely's commits from the last month or so.
> This was getting to be suspicious as I expected to see a bunch of commits
> from Sept / Oct of this year. *
>
> *git log CLI output:*
> ➜ git --no-pager log --format=fuller --committer=shuzirra
> commit 44bab51be44e31224dabbfa548eb27ea5fb2f916
> Author:     Gergely Pollak <shuzi...@apache.org>
> AuthorDate: Wed Aug 4 15:43:07 2021 +0200
> Commit:     Gergely Pollak <shuzi...@apache.org>
> CommitDate: Wed Aug 4 15:43:57 2021 +0200
>
>
>   YARN-10849 Clarify testcase documentation for
> TestServiceAM#testContainersReleasedWhenPreLaunchFails. Contributed by
> Szilard Nemeth
>
>
> commit e9339aa3761295fe65bb786e01938c7c177cd6e7
> Author:     Gergely Pollak <shuzi...@cloudera.com>
> AuthorDate: Tue Jun 1 15:57:22 2021 +0200
> Commit:     Gergely Pollak <shuzi...@cloudera.com>
> CommitDate: Tue Jun 1 15:57:22 2021 +0200
>
>
>   YARN-10797. Logging parameter issues in scheduler package. Contributed
> by Szilard Nemeth
>
>
> *2. Another example of a merged PR, here I was the author and Adam Antal
> was the committer:  *
> PR link: https://github.com/apache/hadoop/pull/3454
>
> *git log CLI output:*
> ➜ git --no-pager log --format=fuller a9b2469a534 -1
> commit a9b2469a534c5bc554c09aaf2d460a5a00922aca
> Author:     Adam Antal <aada...@gmail.com>
> AuthorDate: Sun Sep 19 14:42:02 2021 +0200
> Commit:     GitHub <nore...@github.com>
> CommitDate: Sun Sep 19 14:42:02 2021 +0200
>
>
>   YARN-10950. Code cleanup in QueueCapacities (#3454)
>
>
> *3. Let's see another two example of merged PRs by Gergely and how the
>
> git
>
> log CLI output look like for these commits: *
>
> *3.1.*
> PR link: https://github.com/apache/hadoop/pull/3419
> Commit:
>
>
> https://github.com/apache/hadoop/commit/4df4389325254465b52557d6fa99bcd470d64409
>
>
> *git log CLI output:*
> ➜ git --no-pager log --format=fuller
> 4df4389325254465b52557d6fa99bcd470d64409 -1
> commit 4df4389325254465b52557d6fa99bcd470d64409
> Author:     Szilard Nemeth <
>
> 954799+szilard-nem...@users.noreply.github.com>
>
> AuthorDate: Mon Sep 20 16:47:46 2021 +0200
> Commit:     GitHub <nore...@github.com>
> CommitDate: Mon Sep 20 16:47:46 2021 +0200
>
>
>   YARN-10911. AbstractCSQueue: Create a separate class for usernames and
> weights that are travelling in a Map. Contributed by Szilard Nemeth
>
>
> *3.2.  *
> PR link: https://github.com/apache/hadoop/pull/3342
> Commit:
>
>
> https://github.com/apache/hadoop/commit/9f6430c9ed2bca5696e77bfe9eda5d4f10b0d280
>
>
> *git log CLI output:*
> ➜ git --no-pager log --format=fuller
> 9f6430c9ed2bca5696e77bfe9eda5d4f10b0d280 -1
> commit 9f6430c9ed2bca5696e77bfe9eda5d4f10b0d280
> Author:     9uapaw <gyora...@gmail.com>
> AuthorDate: Tue Sep 21 16:08:24 2021 +0200
> Commit:     GitHub <nore...@github.com>
> CommitDate: Tue Sep 21 16:08:24 2021 +0200
>
>
>   YARN-10897. Introduce QueuePath class. Contributed by Andras Gyori
>
>
> As you can see, the committer field contains: *"GitHub <
>
> nore...@github.com
>
> <nore...@github.com>>".*
> Is this something specific to Hadoop or our Gitbox commit environment?
> Basically, any PR merged on the github.com UI will lose the committer
> information in the commit, which is very bad.
>
> As I think reviewing and having discussion on Github's UI is way better
> than in jira, the only thing that makes sense for me to do perform as a
> workaround is that downloading the patch from Github before the commit,
> then commit from the CLI by adding the author info, optionally appending
> the standard "Contributed by <name>" message to the commit message.
> For example:
>
> git commit -m "YARN-xxx. <Commit message> Contributed by <author's full
> name>" --author=<author's username>
>
> This way, both the author and committer field will be correct. One
>
> downside
>
> is that the PR won't be merged on Github, it will be in closed state
> because the commit is committed from the CLI, so the Github PR will have
>
> a
>
> misleading status.
>
> What do you think?
> What is your workflow for commits?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Szilard
>
>
>
>
>

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