From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] allow user aliases for the --author parameter
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:19:02 -0400
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Cc: Michael J Gruber <michaeljgruber+gmane@fastmail.fm>,
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On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 02:09:35PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 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\"' -"

Very clever, I like it. And it also solves the problem I sometimes _do_
have, which is pulling aliases into my mua from git.

-Peff