From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:41:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] allow user aliases for the --author parameter
Message-ID: <20080821174118.GB5119@blimp.local>
In-Reply-To: <g8jbvd$18k$1@ger.gmane.org>

Michael J Gruber, Thu, Aug 21, 2008 11:19:41 +0200:
> This allows the use of author abbreviations when specifying commit
> authors via the --author option to git commit. "--author=$key" is
> resolved by looking up "user.$key.name" and "user.$key.email" in the
> config.

Isn't there existing well-known formats for mail aliases?
For instance, Mutt uses simple text file:

    alias nickname1 Author Name <mail@address>
    alias nickname2 "Author Name 2" <mail2@address>

I don't know how well-known this is, but is surely more known than
git's config (and there are aliases in that format already).
Maybe just reference such files in git's config?