nicolapiccinelli / git-session

Python utility used to alias the standard git command to provide user session management

git-session

git-session is a Python utility used to alias the standard git command. It provides a easier way to the user session management. The script creates an external database (managed throught JSON) where a list of users is stored in the following folder ${HOME}/.git-session/users.json. Running git throught this utility will prevent unwanted commits with the wrong user (can happen in case of shared user session on the same machine).

Usage

The git-session.py adds the following subcommands to existing git commands:

• --add-user add a new user to the list of git user profiles. It creates automatically a nickname for each new user, the nickname has the following syntax name.surname.
• --rm-user remove an existing user from the list of git user profiles.
• --list-user print in the terminal the list of the git user profiles.
• --login set the local user.name and user.email configuration file to the specified user profile.
• --logout clear the existing local user.name and user.email configuration.

Examples

Alias the standard git command with the git-session script (e.g. alias git='python ${HOME}/git-session.py'). For now on, the following examples are assumed to have the alias set up:

Add new user (--add-user)

$ git --add-user "John Doe<[e-mail]>

Remove a user (--rm-user)

$ git --rm-user john.doe

Print the users list (--list-user)

$ git --list-user

Login an existing user (--login)

$ git --login john.doe

Logout (--logout)

$ git --logout

Todo

• Add git autocomplete through git-session