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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] allow user aliases for the --author parameter
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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?