git-pair
A git porcelain for changing user.name and user.email so you can commit as
more than one author.
Usage
The gem currently is not available on rubygems.
First you will need to install a helper gem that makes installing directly from github possible:
gem install specific_install
Then go and install the gem:
gem specific_install https://github.com/12finger/git-pair
And here's how to use it!
$ git pair
General Syntax:
git pair [reset | authors | options]
Options:
-a, --add AUTHOR Add an author. Format: "Author Name <author@example.com>"
-r, --remove NAME Remove an author. Use the full name.
-d, --reset Reset current author to default (global) config
--pattern PATTERN Set email pattern. Example: "dev+%name+%name@%domain"
%name - First name
%last - Last name
%abbr - Abbreviation
%domain - Use domain from global config
--remove-pattern Reset the current email pattern to default.
Switching authors:
git pair aa [bb] Where AA and BB are any initials or first/last name
of an author. You can specify one or more authors.
Current config:
Author list: Adam McCrea
Jon Distad
Current author: Jon Distad + Adam McCrea
Current email: devs+jd+am@mynewsdesk.com
How does it work?
The list of authors is maintained in the global git configuration file. The current author is set in the git configuration local to the project. The email address for a pair is generated using the git-pair domain from the global configuration along with the developer abbreviations (as per the setup PATTERN).
About this version
This was forked from http://github.com/mynewsdesk/git-pair, which in turn was forked from http://github.com/chrisk/git-pair. Many thanks to Chris Kampmeier for the original version and to mynewsdesk for the improved version.
I updated the gem to make use of a new git-config setting:
[git-pair] besides the traditional [user] setting:
[user]
name = Patrick Kozma
email = patrick@12finger.com
[git-pair]
domain = mynewsdesk.com
so there you can put your companies domain which then will be used for building the pairing email address.
On git pair --reset / git pair -d or in case there is no pairing, then the actual
License
Copyright (c) 2009 Chris Kampmeier. See LICENSE for details.