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[Schema Inaccuracy] Commit message can actually be null

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
openapi
Domain
api

Research direction

Locate the OpenAPI schema definition for commit.message and inspect how nullability is represented for that field. Update the schema so commit.message is nullable, then verify the generated or schema validation output reflects the change; the issue names no specific file or test.

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Description

feature

Schema Inaccuracy

I'm not sure why exactly, but commit messages can be null. The schema does not reflect this.

Expected

commit.message should be nullable.

Reproduction Steps

I have no record of where we saw this, but we saw it.

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