<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, 13 Sep 2020 at 15:51, Hubert Tong <<a href="mailto:hubert.reinterpretcast@gmail.com">hubert.reinterpretcast@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">If you mean "amend" the message in the Web UI before merging, then yes,<br>
they let you change the message, but it's very easy to forget to do<br>
that.</blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's what I meant, yes. "Easy to forget" generally goes away when you repeat it enough times.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, occasionally forgetting to edit the commit message is not an egregious thing. It's not like the default message is wrong or anything.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>You could even remember, but GitHub's web application (at least when used with Firefox) could, after failing due to transient connection problems, revert your message changes. This is in addition to the annoyance of GitHub pages reloading with outdated state and previously-submitted messages appearing as being under draft.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Right, I think this is more of a browser issue than a git issue, but I agree it does have an effect on the commit message.</div><div><br></div><div>I don't think the web page would directly have that effect, so perhaps when using unstable connections, reverting to use the plain website for merges would help. </div></div></div>