git-pair is a bash script that enables you to simply add your co-authors to your commits.

Acknowledge everyone that contributes to the commit.

See example with many authors.

• Amend previous commit message by appending Co-authored-by: ..
  • See here
• Autocompletion git-pair <TAB><TAB>
• Multiple Co-authors
• Idempotent
  • Co-authors will be unique and sorted alphabetically

1. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/ninth-dev/git-pair.git

2. Create an file $HOME/.git-pair and add your team mates

   e.g.

   # Follow the pattern: alias name <email>
   (
   echo "john-smith John Smith <[email protected]>"
   echo "jane-doe Jane Doe <[email protected]>"
   echo "alice Alice <[email protected]>"
   echo "bob Bob <[email protected]>"
   ) > $HOME/.git-pair

   NB: You can just open the file $HOME/.git-pair and use your favourite editor :)

3. Source the git-pair script to your shell startup file (e.g. .zshrc, .bashrc)

   source <PATH_TO_GIT_PAIR>/git-pair.sh

4. Restart your shell or source your startup file.

After committing and you want to add your pair (co-author) in.

$ git commit --message "nit: some random bugfix"
$ git-pair john-smith
🍐'd with John Smith <[email protected]>

This will amend the previous commit message :

$ git log -1
.
.
Co-authored-by: John Smith <[email protected]>

$ git-pair jane-doe
🍐'd with Jane Doe <[email protected]>
$ git log -1
.
.
Co-authored-by: Jane Doe <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: John Smith <[email protected]>

You could also simply just create an alias for your mob-programming sessions.

alias git-mob='git-pair john-smith && git-pair jane-doe && git-pair alice && git-pair bob'

$ git-mob
🍐'd with John Smith <[email protected]>
🍐'd with Jane Doe <[email protected]>
🍐'd with Alice <[email protected]>
🍐'd with Bob <[email protected]>

$ git log -1
.
.
Co-authored-by: Alice <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Bob <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Jane Doe <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: John Smith <[email protected]>

# NB: Co-authors are sorted alphabetically