From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:19:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] allow user aliases for the --author parameter
Message-ID: <7viqtmqstu.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080827122954.GA11986@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> My only complaint is:
>
>> +	strbuf_addf(&buf, "--author=%s", name);
>> +	av[++ac] = "--all";
>> +	av[++ac] = buf.buf;
>> +	av[++ac] = NULL;
>
> I am too lazy to hit "shift", so I would use "-i".

I thought about it after writing the one you saw on the list, but from the
beginning I was planning to do this merely as a demonstration patch that
somebody who is interested in the feature can polish and resubmit with
test and documentation.  I didn't bother adding such frills --- that is
part of "polish and resubmit" cycle.