Leading space inserted for title of pre tag commit

[tueda]

Somehow ./gradlew release inserted a leading space to the commit title for pre tag commit. This occurred to me with

Gradle 7.5
net.researchgate.release 3.0.0

Kotlin:       1.6.21
Groovy:       3.0.10
Ant:          Apache Ant(TM) version 1.10.11 compiled on July 10 2021
JVM:          11.0.14 (Ubuntu 11.0.14+9-Ubuntu-0ubuntu2.20.04)
OS:           Linux 5.10.102.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 amd64

Downgrading the version 3.0.0 to 2.8.1 fixes the issue, i.e., no leading space inserted, see the image below.

I think this must be reproducible if one uses my repo and runs ./gradlew release, though it is totally unclear to me why this could happen. It seems that GitHub/GitLab interface ignores such leading spaces in commit titles, so one should use git log to see them.

[peetkes]

we also ran into this while we setup workflow rules on skipping commits which started with '[Gradle Release Plugin]'. The pre tag commit slipped through because of the leading space.

[pschyska]

Is that extra space from here?: https://github.com/researchgate/gradle-release/blob/af4bf46b51b458ae52ee534ba362632f6f150d57/src/main/groovy/net/researchgate/release/tasks/PreTagCommit.groovy#L26 Our preCommitText is empty, and we get the leading space in the commit message as well.

[peetkes]

That seems a logic explanation. Would it make sense to check if preCommitText if empty before prepending it to the message? Maybe the preCommitText should contain [Gradle Release Plugin] and change the other ones like below:

    @Input
    final Property<String> preCommitText = project.objects.property(String.class).convention('[Gradle Release Plugin] -')

    @Input
    final Property<String> preTagCommitMessage = project.objects.property(String.class).convention('pre tag commit: ')

    @Input
    final Property<String> tagCommitMessage = project.objects.property(String.class).convention('creating tag: ')

    @Input
    final Property<String> newVersionCommitMessage = project.objects.property(String.class).convention('new version commit: ')