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

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 04:31:30PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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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.

It is not just you. I think this version of the patch is much improved,
but I am still against user.$key.*. At the very least, it needs its own
namespace.

I think if somebody cares, reading external files of various formats
would be nice (and a simple "alias, space, expansion, newline" format
could be introduced), but since I am not volunteering to implement that,
this even simpler implementation is acceptable to me, as long as it is
user.alias.$key.* or similar.

-Peff