From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Michael J Gruber <michaeljgruber+gmane@fastmail.fm>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] allow user aliases for the --author parameter
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:31:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vsksr1hgt.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48B3B8B0.4020609@fastmail.fm> (Michael J. Gruber's message of "Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:02:56 +0200")
Michael J Gruber <michaeljgruber+gmane@fastmail.fm> writes:
> This allows the use of author abbreviations when specifying commit
> authors via the --author option to git commit. "--author=$key" is
> resolved by looking up "user.$key.name" and "user.$key.email" in the
> config.
Maybe it is just me, but I am hesitant about the contamination of user.*
configuration namespace. This patch as a general solution does not scale
well, once you start working with more than a few dozen people.
Why was it insufficient to use an external shortname-to-fullname mapping
file like git-svn and git-cvsimport does, again?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-26 23:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-21 9:19 [PATCH] allow user aliases for the --author parameter Michael J Gruber
2008-08-21 13:49 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-08-21 14:30 ` Michael J Gruber
2008-08-21 17:41 ` Alex Riesen
2008-08-21 17:49 ` Alex Riesen
2008-08-21 20:02 ` Jeff King
2008-08-22 6:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-22 8:27 ` Michael J Gruber
2008-08-22 16:50 ` Jeff King
2008-08-22 21:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-22 21:19 ` Jeff King
2008-08-26 8:02 ` [PATCH v2] " Michael J Gruber
2008-08-26 23:31 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-08-27 0:19 ` Jeff King
2008-08-27 6:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-27 9:36 ` Michael J Gruber
2008-08-27 12:40 ` Jeff King
[not found] ` <20080827123656.GB11986@coredump.intra.peff.net>
[not found] ` <7vmyiyqt08.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
2008-08-27 17:18 ` Jeff King
2008-08-28 8:53 ` Michael J Gruber
2008-08-28 21:33 ` Jeff King
[not found] ` <7vr68aqt3h.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
[not found] ` <48B65922.4050005@fastmail.fm>
2008-08-28 21:36 ` Jeff King
2008-08-27 12:29 ` Jeff King
2008-08-27 17:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-24 9:19 ` [PATCH] " Pedro Melo
2008-08-24 17:21 ` Jeff King
2008-08-25 1:38 ` [PATCH] fix "git log -i --grep" Jeff King
2008-08-25 2:10 ` [PATCH] format-patch: use default diff format even with patch options Jeff King
2008-08-25 4:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-25 5:12 ` [PATCH] fix "git log -i --grep" Junio C Hamano
2008-08-25 6:15 ` Jeff King
2008-08-25 6:18 ` Jeff King
2008-08-25 6:27 ` Junio C Hamano
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