display of merged revisions in loggerhead and log

John Arbash Meinel john at arbash-meinel.com
Fri Mar 7 09:43:19 GMT 2008


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Michael Hudson wrote:
> 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
> 

I think it looks nice.

John
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