Distinguish between a changeset author and the user who actually pushed a change

[Chris Hegarty]

It is of course a little hacky, but the ‘XXX-changes at o.j.n’ mailing archives contain the
information you are looking for.

-Chris.

On 26 Jan 2016, at 10:02, Volker Simonis <volker.simonis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> 
> thanks for all your comments. Your answers confirm my assumptions that
> this is currently not possible with plain OpenJDK Mercurial
> repositories.
> 
> Mozilla seems to have a Mercurial extension for this use case [1] but
> it doesn't seems to be be used in OpenJDK.
> 
> Thanks again and best regards,
> Volker
> 
> [1] http://mozilla-version-control-tools.readthedocs.org/en/latest/hgmo/pushlog.html
> 
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 5:14 AM, Wang Weijun <weijun.wang at oracle.com> wrote:
>>> On Jan 26, 2016, at 2:58 AM, Volker Simonis <volker.simonis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Is it possible to get both these users (i.e. the user who pushed and
>>> the user who authored the change) from a plain Mercurial clone of the
>>> OpenJDK?
>> 
>> What do you want to use it for?
>> 
>> BTW, I don't think there is a pusher. I push a changeset to jdk9/dev, someone else push it to jdk9/jdk9, and now there are 2 pushers. Maybe it's possible to add a committer, but what if you export your changeset and ask me to push it?
>> 
>> --Max
>>