[Monotone-devel] Re: [PATCH] Make "mtn log" show the signer of changelog/comment certs

[Luke Schierer]

On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 11:47:42AM -0600, Richard Laager wrote:
> The Pidgin project has been using --author to credit patch submitters.
> Currently, though, it's not very easy to tell who committed the revision
> when looking at log messages. I also find it odd to see a patch with an
> author of "Bob" and a changelog message of "A patch from Bob that does
> [blah]. I modified this a bit, ....". Additionally, you can't easily
> tell who used "mtn comment".
> 
> The attached patch solves these three issues by displaying the signer of
> the cert when the cert is multiline. This is currently only the case for
> changelog and comment certs. I think this behavior is likely to be
> desired if further multiline certs were added to the log output. Plus,
> the function I modified is internal to this file anyway.
> 
> Richard
> 

I am a fan of this change.

luke