display of merged revisions in loggerhead and log

[Michael Hudson]

Michael Hudson wrote:
> Martin Pool wrote:
>>> The topic was how to make it apparent that the committer of a merge 
>>> revision didn't necessarily do all the work being merged.

[...]

>> Showing this on unfolded revisions is not so great.  What we really
>> should be doing there is expanding out all the merged-in revisions,
>> like in log.  Then you can see exactly what those people did.
> 
> The thing that scares me about doing this is merges from head.  This 
> isn't a problem for bzr.dev, but if you look at some long lived feature 
> branch (like say the packs branch back in the day) there might be some 
> 'merge from head' that brings in a thousand new revisions and this would 
> make the changelog view stupidly large.  But I guess that's just a 
> matter of only displaying a limited number of revisions and a 'see also' 
> link.
> 
> /me goes off to read the code for 'bzr log'...

So what do you think of the attached then?

Cheers,
mwh
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