Hacktoberfest 2026: the issues maintainers tagged for October, open and beginner-friendly. Browse Hacktoberfest issues

Cherry picked commit's message skips the prefix of the original one

Open
#26 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
release, tooling

Research direction

Review the cherry-pick handling behind the examples in pull requests 12823 and 13015. Reproduce the message discrepancy and trace where the original commit message is transformed; done means the [android] prefix is preserved in the resulting cherry-picked message.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

See https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-native/pull/12823 where commit message should be [android] - update changelog for v6.5.0-beta.1 and is - update changelog for v6.5.0-beta.1. Similar situation in https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-native/pull/13015.

Dominant language
JavaScript
Stars
16
Forks
5
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

More from mapbox/github-release-tools

All issues in mapbox/github-release-tools

Similar issues

More JavaScript issues

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.