On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 05:09:04PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> writes:
> > The attached patch gives you an idea of what I want to add.
> 
> This patch doesn't seem to be against HEAD?

Yes, if people approve, I will work on a current patch against HEAD.

> >     --details-after Show branch and author info after the commit description
> 
> I don't understand the point of that.

The release notes have the author at the end of the text.

> >     --master-only   Show commits made exclusively to the master branch
> 
> Agreed, this could be useful.
> 
> >     --oldest-first  Show oldest commits first
> 
> This also seems rather useless in comparison to how much it complicates
> the code.  We don't sort release note entries by commit date, so what's
> it matter?

It is very hard to read the commit messages newest-first because they
are often cummulative, and the order of items of equal weight is
oldest-first in the release notes.

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