The git conventions memory said to match the repository's existing log
style. Several repositories (multicluster, core-services-cloud) have
histories dominated by bare "WSP-1234: summary" subjects, so matching
them produced commits that were not in conventional form. A related
failure was scope decay within a session: the first commit was correct
and later ones degraded to bare "test:" or "refactor:" subjects. Both
required commit history to be rebased by hand.
- Make "<type>(<TICKET-ID>): <summary>" mandatory on every commit and
explicitly override repository log style. Style matching now applies
to branch names only.
- Describe how to establish the real ticket ID (named in the request,
extracted from the branch, or taken from existing commits on the
branch) and require asking rather than guessing when none is
available. Replace the literal WSP-1234 examples with <TICKET-ID> so
the placeholder cannot be committed verbatim.
- Record scope decay across a session as a named failure mode.
- Cover merge commits, preferring rebase and requiring an explicit
message when a merge commit is unavoidable.
- Add a pre-push verification grep that must return no output.
- Note that a clean git log does not prove a subject was correct when
written, because rebasing replaces it; compare author and committer
dates instead.
Update the MEMORY.md index entry to match.
Emma Thorpe
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