From: Jeff King Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:37:01 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] commit: Show the committer ident when is different from the parent Message-ID: <20080430163701.GA6544@sigill.intra.peff.net> In-Reply-To: <20080430145017.GA922@sigill.intra.peff.net> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:50:17AM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > A few other comments (I like the idea overall): Actually, thinking about this a bit more (and using it), I'm not sure that the best rule for showing the committer is "differs from the previous committer." For example, if I am building on Junio's git.git, the committer name is shown, even though I have made many commits in this repo already. So if the goal is to show the committer name only when it "matters", I don't think you have succeeded. -Peff