Pull Request Description automatically put in commit log

[Austin Lee]

With the usage of PR Description Templates in bitbucket, it would be great if there was a way to automatically populate the commit message box (when you click Merge in the UI) with the content of the PR description as it can be useful. Is there a way to do this?

[Saxea _Flowie_]

Hi @Austin Lee

I'm afraid this is not supported by Bitbucket out of the box. However Flowie, which is an addon we provide, has this feature! You can set the commit message using 'commitMessageTemplate' option. 

You can specify a dynamic template:

commitMessageTemplate: (({ pullRequest }) => `${pullRequest.summary}`)

You can contact our support and we can assist with any additional queries as well.

[Austin Lee]

Thanks for the feedback, I'll look into Flowie, but I was hoping for something much more lighter weight. 

[Austin Lee]

Is there a way to request this as a built-in feature for Bitbucket? Seems natural as you are able to setup a PR description template to also make it go to the commit log automatically.

[Saxea _Flowie_]

Yes, in fact there are already requests related to this here and here.