On 10/22/19 7:46 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH] pretty: Add "%aU"|"%au" option to output author's username
>
> Downcase "Add" (see "git shortlog --no-merges -100 master" and
> mimick the project convention).
I'll fix that.
>
>> Add a "%aU"|"%au" option that outputs the author's email username.
>
> Even though I personally do not see the use for it, I agree it would
> make sense to have an option to show the local part only where the
> e-mail address is shown.
>
> I do not know if u/U is a good mnemonic; it hints too strongly that
> it may come from GIT_{AUTHOR/COMMITTER}_NAME but that is not what
> you are doing---isn't there a letter that better conveys that this
> is about RFC 2822 local-part (cf. page 16 ieft.org/rfc/rfc2822.txt)?
I'll go with "l" and "L" for local-part as defined on page 16. I will also
include a comment in braces that says (the portion of the email address
preceding the '@' symbol)". Admittedly that doesn't convey the meaning of the
mailbox concept of the email address it does tell a user what is going to be output.
>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
>> index b87e2e83e6d0..479a15a8ab12 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
>> @@ -163,6 +163,9 @@ The placeholders are:
>> '%ae':: author email
>> '%aE':: author email (respecting .mailmap, see linkgit:git-shortlog[1]
>> or linkgit:git-blame[1])
>> +'%au':: author username
>> +'%aU':: author username (respecting .mailmap, see linkgit:git-shortlog[1]
>> + or linkgit:git-blame[1])
>> '%ad':: author date (format respects --date= option)
>> '%aD':: author date, RFC2822 style
>> '%ar':: author date, relative
>
>> diff --git a/pretty.c b/pretty.c
>> index b32f0369531c..2a5b93022050 100644
>> --- a/pretty.c
>> +++ b/pretty.c
>> @@ -706,6 +706,11 @@ static size_t format_person_part(struct strbuf *sb, char part,
>> strbuf_add(sb, mail, maillen);
>> return placeholder_len;
>> }
>> + if (part == 'u' || part == 'U') { /* username */
>> + maillen = strstr(s.mail_begin, "@") - s.mail_begin;
>> + strbuf_add(sb, mail, maillen);
>> + return placeholder_len;
>> + }
>
> I think users get %eu and %eU for free with this change, which should
> be documented.
>
Did you mean %cu and %cU? Or am I missing something with "%e"?
P.
