git-coauthors

Lists all authors of a git repo as potential co-authors of a commit.

Usage

git coauthors

Installation

Download the git-coauthors script to a directory in your PATH. I have ~/bin in my PATH and this is where I put it.

Integration

These are some of the ways git coauthors can be integrated in a workflow.

With grep and pbcopy

Quickly find a particular author and copy the Co-Authored-By line to the clipboard:

git coauthors | grep Authorname | pbcopy

With vim

Option 1: Using read

Paste the output of the above command directly in the buffer:

:read !git coauthors | grep Authorname

Option 2: Using vim-fzf to turn this into a completion:

This is my current workflow. I have an insert-mode keymap in my .vimrc:

inoremap <expr> <c-x><c-g> fzf#vim#complete('git coauthors')

When I'm writing a commit message, I type the partial name of the co-author and press Ctrl-xCtrl-g which pops up fzf with completions:

Pressing Enter finishes the completion with the selected text.

More

There are probably more ways to integrate this. If you come up with another one, let me know!