npm install git-pairAllows you to commit with two users by making one the committer and the other the author. Also lets you switch users easily.
Credit to @roylines for the original idea in his gits repo.
npm install git-pair -g
This installs:
- A git alias git users
- An executable gitp
You can also install git-pair locally:
npm install git-pair
This will install the git alias to the local git config, to use gitp you need to run:
./node_modules/.bin/gitp
Configure the users for your pair with git users, then use gitp instead of git:
git users jane@example.com bob@example.com
gitp commit -m "Did the code"
This alias allows you to get or set git users.
You can find out which users are currently configured using:
git users
You can set users using their email addresses:
git users jane@example.com bob@example.com
This looks up git usernames from GitHub, alternatively you can specify usernames explicitly:
git users jane:jane@example.com bob:bob@example.com
The users are stored as values in git config. The first user entered is always the normal git user.
gitp is a wrapper executable for git which injects git committer and author environment variables to the command to allow two people to contribute to a commit. It alternates the committer and author in each commit.
Simply use it as you would use git e.g. gitp commit -m "Fixed the thing"
#### Aliasing
You can also alias this over git to use this in place of it. I prefer this because it prevents people from accidentally committing with a single user. Simply add alias git='gitp' to ~/.bashrc (or ~/.bash_profile on Mac).