Synchronize Merge Request Summary with Commit Message

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This would be a configuration option at the Project level with three impacts:

• Automatically fill in the Merge Request summary text from the first commit message in the MR
• Automatically keep the MR summary text in sync with commit message updates when new pushes occur.
• If the MR summary is changed, merging that MR should result in the commit message being automatically updated in the landed commit.

There are a few different feature requests buried in here and making things work in all scenarios is hard. E.g. you can’t update summaries automatically if there are multiple commits / commit messages. And what do you do when a change was made in both the commit message and the MR summary?

This is mostly targeted at Gerrit fans. Gerrit doesn't have a separate concept of a MR summary: since each review unit is a commit, they use the commit message as the summary when rendering the review.

Requested by a large prospect.

/cc @jramsay