Surfacing committer and timestamp on commit

[Martin Pool]

On 16 Aug 2005, Lele Gaifax <lele at nautilus.homeip.net> wrote:
> >>>>> "John" == John A Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:
> 
>     John> At least at present, there is no plan to include them,
>     John> because the goal is to not confuse the user by options that
>     John> they shouldn't generally use.
> 
> Uhm, ok.

I wouldn't mind exposing them on the command line.  It's probably enough
to just have the help text say that they shouldn't normally be used.

>     John> If you are looking to do scripting, then the recommended
>     John> method is to use the bzrlib directly, rather than trying to
>     John> go through the 'bzr' front-end.
> 
>     John> Is there a specific reason you want the functionality?
> 
> For tailor, another tool that migrates between VCs. I'll try to use
> the bzrlib directly.

That would probably be better, if only through avoiding reinvoking
python for every commit.

-- 
Martin