Automatic setting of --author when committing a merge

[Richard Wilbur]

On Sun, 2009-07-19 at 10:22 +0200, Nicholas Allen wrote:
> I think it would be a good idea if Bazaar would set the --author
> option for each author of a revision in a pending merge when
> committing (or at least it could be an option to the commit command to
> do so).
> 
> That way when PQM, for example, commits on behalf of a number of
> authors then the authors fields on the committed revision would be
> correct.
> 
> What do you think?
+1

This is the reason we use computers and automated tools:  to ease the
task of managing data and complexity.  Sounds like a great idea to me.
This simplifies the job of attribution for all the work done in creating
patches.

Richard