[MERGE] New log formats controlling the display of merge revisions

[Wouter van Heyst]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 04:33:09PM +1000, Ian Clatworthy wrote:

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> Once 3 * 2 formats exist regardless of their naming, we need to pick
> the best default. When I proposed short as the default a few days
> ago, the response was overwhelming positive, *despite* the fact that
> short never shows merge revisions. It seems that a large number of us
> use short most of the time. It would be good to understand the driver
> behind that. Is is because of:

FWIW, I always use long and never short. I use line on missing if the
amount of divergence is rather large.

Wouter