Re: git log --author=me

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Nov 2, 2015, 18:24 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqsi4oi7jj.fsf@anie.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqy4ege0p5.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
>
>> Harry Jeffery <harry@exec64.co.uk> writes:
>>
>>> The purpose being to make finding your own commits quicker and easier:
>>>     git log --author=me
>>
>> Since --author does a regexp search, this would most likely break
>> someone's searches.  Better add a new option for that functionality.
>
> I do not think it would hurt too much to add "--mine" to look for
> "--author" that matches you, but on the other hand, I am not sure
> its value outweighs the additional noise in the manual page.

I have a few aliases to congratulate myself for being such an awesome contributor from time to time ;-):

[alias]
	mymaster = log --oneline --author=Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr origin/master

It did require me to write these lines in my config file, but I think that the trouble of writing them is smaller than the extra noise in the manual page and possibly the output of `git log -h`. Having the shorthand "--author=me" would be better than "git log --mine" as far as cluttering the doc is concerned IMHO, but it's also likely to break someone's search.

BTW, the output of `git log -h` is disappointing:

    $ git log -h
    usage: git log [<options>] [<revision-range>] [[--] <path>...]
       or: git show [<options>] <object>...
    
        -q, --quiet           suppress diff output
        --source              show source
        --use-mailmap         Use mail map file
        --decorate[=...]      decorate options
        -L <n,m:file>         Process line range n,m in file, counting from 1
    
There are far more options than this...

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Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/