On 28/10/2023 04:22, Liam Beguin wrote:
On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 10:13:01PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
One way you could directly use this is in shortlog, which these days
lets you group by specific formats. So:
git shortlog -ns --group=format:%aA
That's exactly what I implemented this for :-)
Another potential use case is custom log formats where one might want to
color the local-part separately from the domain part.
It also feels like a symmetric match to "%al", which already exists.
Speaking of symmetry, I think it would need "%c" counterparts for the
coloring use case.
I chose the "a" for "address", but I'm not sold on %aa either.
I just couldn't find anything better that wasn't already taken.
What about "a@"?
Makes sense, and I suppose there's "%G?" as precedent for using a symbol
rather than letter in these.
If that's not suitable though, how about "m" for "mail domain"? It also
immediately follows "l" for "local-part" in the alphabet.
Regards,
Andy
