From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2015 18:37:09 GMT
Subject: Re: git log --author=me
Message-ID: <CACsJy8D83-Mg8UHA-=CPJ3z37CQTn7USjEbfO8QcU1T+=tS0Bg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <563764B8.4010101@exec64.co.uk>

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Harry Jeffery <harry@exec64.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've written a patch that allows `me` to be used as shorthand for
> $(user.name) or $(user.email) in the `--author` and `--commiter` fields.
>
> The purpose being to make finding your own commits quicker and easier:
>     git log --author=me
>

It would be even cooler if it accepts mail aliases, then you can
define "me" to your address and also have shortcuts to a few of your
best friends. Though as Andreas pointed out --author is not a good fit
because it accepts regex, and you can't use --mine either, so more
work..
-- 
Duy