git-author

git-author, a git command for managing multiple authors.

Home Page

Project home page is https://github.com/cfelder/git-author

Usage

Configure multiple users, e.g.:

git config --global gitauthor.guest.name "Guest User"
git config --global gitauthor.guest.email "guest.user@example.com"

git config --global gitauthor.john.name "John Doe"
git config --global gitauthor.john.email "john.doe@example.com"

Since version 1.1.0 the committer can be set to match the author using:

git config --global gitauthor.committerisauthor true

Get a list of configured users:

$ git-author

The following authors have been configured:

           guest:  Guest User <guest.user@example.com>
            john:  John Doe <john.doe@example.com>

         default:  Christian Felder <webmaster@bsm-felder.de>

Select specific user:

git-author john

Finally commit your changes as usual in this session using:

git commit

License

The git-author library is open source software released under the LGPL-3.0+ license (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.html).

PEP8 Compliance

git-author is PEP8 compliant.

Download

Package download is available at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/git-author.

Install

git-author can be installed from the Python Package Index using pip or pip3.

$ pip3 install git-author

As git-author needs to change environment variables in your shell, it is necessary to source the git-author script. Please add an alias pointing to the git-author script to your environment, e.g.:

alias git-author='source /usr/local/bin/git-author'

Git repository

You can download the latest source at https://github.com/cfelder/git-author