Re: git log --author=me

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

Andreas Schwab [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Harry Jeffery [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

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/