This improves the changelog generated as part of "setup.py sdist". If you look at it now, it says that Tarmac has done everything and every little commit is listed. With this patch, it only logs the "top-most" commit and credits the author rather than the committer.
This improves the changelog generated as part of "setup.py sdist". If you look at it now, it says that Tarmac has done everything and every little commit is listed. With this patch, it only logs the "top-most" commit and credits the author rather than the committer.

Example from the current output format (from current trunk):
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2010-08-31  Tarmac

        Adjust setup.py to match nova-rsapi -> nova-api-new rename.

2010-08-31  Soren Hansen  <soren.hansen@rackspace.com>

        Fix up setup.py to match nova-rsapi -> nova-api-new rename.

2010-08-30  Tarmac

        Reconnect to libvirt on broken connection.

2010-08-30  Soren Hansen  <soren.hansen@rackspace.com>

        Detect if libvirt connection has been broken and reestablish it.

2010-08-30  Tarmac

        pylint fixes for /nova/virt/connection.py

2010-08-30  jaypipes@gmail.com

        Merge trunk and resolve conflicts

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With this patch, this is reduced to:


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2010-08-31  Soren Hansen <soren.hansen@rackspace.com>

        Adjust setup.py to match nova-rsapi -> nova-api-new rename.

2010-08-30  Soren Hansen <soren.hansen@rackspace.com>

        Reconnect to libvirt on broken connection.

2010-08-30  jaypipes@gmail.com

        pylint fixes for /nova/virt/connection.py

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