Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: show those involved in a merged series

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> 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 " * ".