Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: show those involved in a merged series

Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] writes:

I also wonder if it would make sense to change
... to ...
	* 'mm/push-default-switch-warning' by Matthieu Moy:
	  push: start warning upcoming default change for push.default
which makes the author less distractingly prominent (since they will
be right there in the log soon later once we hit the commits
themselves) and makes the start of the list of commits easier to find
by eye.  This is what I was inarticulately hinting at in my message

Having the author/subsystem attribution on separate lines was a
deliberate design decision made by me, so that (1) cutting and
pasting Linus would prefer to do stays easier, and (2) giving the
credits more prominently in a default format.  There is a paragraph
break before the attribution begins anyway, and I think eyes easily
learn to scan for paragraphs that begin "By " instead of " * ".