From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: show those involved in a merged series Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:45:24 -0700 Message-ID: <7v4nttm4uj.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <7vvcmj68iz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vipii27ka.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vmx7uzq8h.fsf_-_@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20120312071121.GA17269@burratino> <7vipi9mfhx.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20120313052335.GA16664@burratino> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Linus Torvalds , git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King To: Jonathan Nieder X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Mar 13 06:45:36 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S7KYB-0006nr-Ul for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 06:45:36 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758950Ab2CMFp3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:45:29 -0400 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:58468 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752822Ab2CMFp2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:45:28 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7925E7E61; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:45:26 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=kRUDmmobTxVCRzy823JccIHdWwg=; b=XRFaKL nato7UGMnsMtXRc8w5zeDKGKZG2IFdQz0JnG5v5v502sCdGLIh8D+76SPZTdp9Ma sjCxJnwPIqBUHnVS6Xn5JwBTWzWyprUlzd5Z9eEwEuWrUVWLCd+3md8I+1LmdP7V yJhRj1Ec+az8Til2XBItonZKyVRSYDzKkAXNc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=udvfYwwSp/myKjcLME/nwl1Ez8ieB+CL iLiSuca3x/mP+9HGG3tpgl/w4PwQNmYw0dQZ3ySWSdgmZdrCXTZDR7I+9grFN/M3 TS0VzMhvi8a1jYHIV1YVLYMqVYvVoC5Wz1cxMWGHZLbVLApVa6Nk1b56eMjdhnBV VyiJ2ryhL+c= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70AA07E60; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:45:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [76.102.170.102]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 02E9E7E5D; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:45:25 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20120313052335.GA16664@burratino> (Jonathan Nieder's message of "Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:23:35 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: BBA87200-6CCF-11E1-B710-9DB42E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jonathan Nieder writes: > I also wonder if it would make sense to change > ... to ... > * 'mm/push-default-switch-warning' by Matthieu Moy: > push: start warning upcoming default change for push.default > which makes the author less distractingly prominent (since they will > be right there in the log soon later once we hit the commits > themselves) and makes the start of the list of commits easier to find > by eye. This is what I was inarticulately hinting at in my message Having the author/subsystem attribution on separate lines was a deliberate design decision made by me, so that (1) cutting and pasting Linus would prefer to do stays easier, and (2) giving the credits more prominently in a default format. There is a paragraph break before the attribution begins anyway, and I think eyes easily learn to scan for paragraphs that begin "By " instead of " * ".