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

From: Pedro Melo <melo@simplicidade.org>
Date: Aug 24, 2008, 09:19 UTC
Message-ID: <8F4F767F-3D7B-4358-AAD3-8E2BC7EA108D@simplicidade.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vzln492pc.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Aug 22, 2008, at 10:09 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Another potential source of this information is the existing  
> commits.  If
> you are communicating with the same set of people already, you already
> have the information in your repository.  I suspect Michael's  
> "selected
> few co-workers that would comfortably fit in a small list of config
> entries without need for any external text file" use case would be  
> better
> served by an approach to look into existing commits.
>
> I often use "git who Jeff" alias to fill the recipient of my e- 
> mails with
> this alias:
>
>     [alias]
>         who = "!sh -c 'git log -1 --pretty=\"format:%an <%ae>\" -- 
> author=\"$1\"' -"

Nice:)

>         one = "!sh -c 'git show -s --pretty=\"format:%h (%s, %ai\"  
> \"$@\" | sed -e \"s/ [012][0-9]:[0-5][0-9]:[0-5][0-9] [-+][0-9][0-9] 
> [0-9][0-9]$/)/\"' -"

Can you explain this one? It seems a bit like git describe, but it misses a single char at the beggining?

git (master) $ git one 2ebc02d (Start 1.6.1 cycle, 2008-08-17)

git (master) $ git describe v1.6.0-2-g2ebc02d

Best regards,

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