From: Andy Koppe <andy.koppe@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2023 07:02:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] pretty: add '%aA' to show domain-part of email addresses
Message-ID: <fe58af57-e84d-4872-ab88-0b228699e5b5@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <9a1e3e90-3e94-41fa-897d-5c64c4a42871@gmail.com>

On 28/10/2023 07:58, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 28/10/2023 04:22, Liam Beguin wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 10:13:01PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
>>> One way you could directly use this is in shortlog, which these days
>>> lets you group by specific formats. So:
>>>
>>>    git shortlog -ns --group=format:%aA
>>
>> That's exactly what I implemented this for :-)
> 
> Another potential use case is custom log formats where one might want to 
> color the local-part separately from the domain part.
> 
>>> It also feels like a symmetric match to "%al", which already exists.
> 
> Speaking of symmetry, I think it would need "%c" counterparts for the 
> coloring use case.

D'oh, it always helps to read the actual patches, which do have the %c 
variants.

Thanks,
Andy