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Re: [PATCH v2] allow user aliases for the --author parameter

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Aug 27, 2008, 00:19 UTC
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<20080827001944.GA7347@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 04:31:30PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> > 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.
> 
> Maybe it is just me, but I am hesitant about the contamination of user.*
> configuration namespace.  This patch as a general solution does not scale
> well, once you start working with more than a few dozen people.

It is not just you. I think this version of the patch is much improved, but I am still against user.$key.*. At the very least, it needs its own namespace.

I think if somebody cares, reading external files of various formats would be nice (and a simple "alias, space, expansion, newline" format could be introduced), but since I am not volunteering to implement that, this even simpler implementation is acceptable to me, as long as it is user.alias.$key.* or similar.

-Peff
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Message 14 of 32 in “allow user aliases for the --author parameter”
  1. allow user aliases for the --author parameterMichael J Gruber, Aug 21, 2008
  2. Miklos VajnaAug 21, 2008
  3. Michael J GruberAug 21, 2008
  4. Alex RiesenAug 21, 2008
  5. Alex RiesenAug 21, 2008
  6. Jeff KingAug 21, 2008
  7. Junio C HamanoAug 22, 2008
  8. Michael J GruberAug 22, 2008
  9. Jeff KingAug 22, 2008
  10. Junio C HamanoAug 22, 2008
  11. Jeff KingAug 22, 2008
  12. allow user aliases for the --author parameterMichael J Gruber, Aug 26, 2008
  13. Junio C HamanoAug 26, 2008
  14. Jeff KingAug 27, 2008
  15. Junio C HamanoAug 27, 2008
  16. Michael J GruberAug 27, 2008
  17. Jeff KingAug 27, 2008
  18. Jeff KingAug 27, 2008
  19. Junio C HamanoAug 27, 2008
  20. Pedro MeloAug 24, 2008
  21. Jeff KingAug 24, 2008
  22. fix "git log -i --grep"Jeff King, Aug 25, 2008
  23. format-patch: use default diff format even with patch optionsJeff King, Aug 25, 2008
  24. Junio C HamanoAug 25, 2008
  25. Junio C HamanoAug 25, 2008
  26. Jeff KingAug 25, 2008
  27. Jeff KingAug 25, 2008
  28. Junio C HamanoAug 25, 2008
  29. Jeff KingAug 27, 2008
  30. Michael J GruberAug 28, 2008
  31. Jeff KingAug 28, 2008
  32. Jeff KingAug 28, 2008

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