Coauthors

A (ridiculously overengineered) git subcommand for managing co-authored-by commit trailer for pairing. It may eat your git config

WARNING - incomplete and subject to regular breaking changes

Everything will probably break/change as I get a better understanding of what a good workflow around applying Co-authored-by trailers looks like.

Requirements

• A recent version of rustc and cargo (tested on 1.28.0 stable)
• Ruby (for the prepare-commit-msg script, I'd love to rewrite this in bash)
• git

Installation

Clone this repo

git clone git@github.com:daniel-ferguson/coauthors.git

Build

cargo build --release

Add binary to location in your PATH

cp target/release/git-coauthors ~/local/bin

Check it works

git coauthors -h

Configure a template for commit messages

Create a commit message template, containing the string {%authors%} where you'd like your coauthor list to appear, for example:

$ cat ~/.git-commit-template


{%authors%}

Tell git to use the commit template (globally)

git config --global commit.template ~/.git-commit-template

Add the prepare-commit-msg hook to your local git repo

cp git-hooks/prepare-commit-msg ~/projects/your-repo/.git/hooks

CLI Usage

A git wrapper for pairing

USAGE:
    git-coauthors [SUBCOMMAND]

FLAGS:
    -h, --help       Prints help information
    -V, --version    Prints version information

SUBCOMMANDS:
    add      Add to list of available co-authors
    help     Prints this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
    ls       Prints available and active co-authors
    print    Format active co-authors for adding to a commit message
    reset    Remove active co-authors
    set      Set active co-authors