commit pull request

cipreq.bash

cipreq() {

  if [ -z "$1" ]
  then
    echo `git log -1 --no-merges --pretty=format:'git commit -a --author="'"%an <%aE>"'" --message="'"%s %b"'"'`
    return 1
  fi

  AUTHOR=$1

  if [ -z "$2" ]
  then
    MSG=""
  else
    MSG="--grep=${2}"
  fi

  echo `git log -1 ${MSG} --author="${AUTHOR}" --no-merges --pretty=format:'git commit -a --author="'"%an <%aE>"'" --message="'"%s %b"'"'`
}

Usage:

This simple function is meant to help those who want merge pull requests into a repo and give proper attribution to the pull request's author. Run the cipreq command on the command line to get a git commit line that you can copy and paste back into the terminal.

If you just type cipreq alone, it will use the last commit (by date) to the repo. If you add the author's name, or any part of that name, to the command, it will use the last commit by that author. For example, entering cipreq Karl will give you the copy/paste line using the author and message of the last commit by someone with "Karl" in his name.

If the author committed again after sending the pull request and that other commit was merged in, you can specify a distinctive word within the commit message that you're targeting. It would look like this:

cipreq Karl somethingFromCommit

This is starting to feel hackish. I wish I knew how to do command-line arguments of the -- variety so we could do something like cipreq --author=Karl --msg=somethingFromCommit