Here are a few examples of where it's nice to have that extra information: - "Show me all commits by Jimmy, but don't bother with those he made on the i18n bra

Here are a few examples of where it's nice to have that extra information: - "Show me all commits by Jimmy, but don't bother with those he made on the i18n branch." - "Did Sally make this change on the 3.1 branch and then backport it to 3.0, or did she start on 3.0 and then merge forward into 3.1?" - "Show me all the changesets Steve has made on the 'stable' branch, so I can make sure he's only putting bugfixes there and not sneaking in new features."