[PATCH] .github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md: add a note about single-commit PRs

From: Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 4, 2024, 18:03 UTC
Message-ID: <pull.1665.git.git.1707069808205.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

From: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>

Contributors using Gitgitgadget continue to send single-commit PRs with their commit message text duplicated below the three-dash line, increasing the signal-to-noise ratio for reviewers.

This is because Gitgitgadget copies the pull request description as an in-patch commentary, for single-commit PRs, and _GitHub_ defaults to prefilling the pull request description with the commit message, for single-commit PRs (followed by the content of the pull request template).

Add a note in the pull request template mentioning that for single-commit PRs, the PR description should thus be kept empty, in the hope that contributors read it and act on it.

This partly addresses: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/gitgitgadget/issues/340

Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
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    .github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md: add a note about single-commit PRs

Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-1665%2Fphil-blain%2Fempty-description-single-commit-prs-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-1665/phil-blain/empty-description-single-commit-prs-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/1665

 .github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md b/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md
index 952c7c3a2aa..65fa3a37173 100644
--- a/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md
+++ b/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md
@@ -4,4 +4,8 @@ a mailing list (git@vger.kernel.org) for code submissions, code reviews, and
 bug reports. Nevertheless, you can use GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/)
 to conveniently send your Pull Requests commits to our mailing list.
 
+If you use Gitgitgadget for a single-commit pull request, please *leave the pull
+request description empty*: your commit message itself should describe your
+changes.
+
 Please read the "guidelines for contributing" linked above!

base-commit: bc7ee2e5e16f0d1e710ef8fab3db59ab11f2bbe7

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