Commit message whitespace issue

[Thomas Stüfe]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 1:12 PM Robin Westberg <robin.westberg at oracle.com>
wrote:

> Hi Thomas,
>
> On 24 Sep 2020, at 12:41, Thomas Stüfe <thomas.stuefe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> sorry to be a bother, but I try to understand the jcheck bot error on the
> following PR:
>
>
> No worries!
>
> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/332
>
> "The commit message contains a tab on line 2"
>
> The PR contains a single commit which I created using
>
> git commit -m 'JDK-8253572'
>
> Since the commit message only consists of one word, where does the tab come
> into play? What should I do to fix or avoid this problem?
>
>
> This error certainly looks a bit confusing. The root of the error is that
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8249943 contains a tab at the
> end of the tile, which has then been propagated to the commit message that
> will be used for the final commit. Normally you’d see what this commit
> message looks like, but it won’t be shown until the check passes..
>
> We should ensure that the the check filters tab characters from issue
> titles I think, I’ll file a bug for this.
>
> Meanwhile, I edited the propagated title in your PR to unblock it, hope
> you don’t mind.
>
>
Thanks a lot Robin! JBS should really strip the issue titles.

Cheers, Thomas


> Best regards,
> Robin
>
>
> Thanks again!
>
> ..Thomas
>
>
>