From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 05:45:24 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: show those involved in a merged series Message-ID: <7v4nttm4uj.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20120313052335.GA16664@burratino> 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 " * ".