A tool to automatically add co-authors to git commit messages while doing pair programming or mob programming.

Currently the only way to get Coauthor to your environment is get it through cargo (the package manager bundled with rust) directly from source (GitHub).

Check your rust version by running rustc --version and ensure you have version 1.35 or higher. If you don't have rust installed, you can install it via homebrew (brew install rust).

With a valid version of rust installed you can install coauthor to your environment by executing this in your terminal (current path doesn't matter):

cargo install --root ~/.cargo --git https://github.com/carlpehrson/coauthor --tag v0.2.0 coauthor

Also, if you haven't already you have to export cargos bin folder into your path to make coauthor available throught your environment (typically put in your ~/.profile):

export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.cargo/bin"

Coauthor comes with a few commands at your disposal which can be executed with the coauthor prefix, e.g. coauthor add. The commands can be divided in two groups:

Organizing your list of available coauthors

• add: Starts a prompt to add an coauthor.
• list: Lists all stored coauthors.
• remove [username]: Removes a coauthor from the local machine.

Controlling active coauthors

• set [username [username ..]]: Updates the git template with predefined coauthors.
• current: Show a list of active coauthors.
• clear: Removes all coauthors from the commit template.

You can always type coauthor help to see the list of available commands.

Assuming you have cargo (the package manager bundled with rust) installed you should only have to:

# Run the test suite
cargo test

# Run the tool
cargo run