At work we have a git repo where the majority of all commits are automated commits by a bot user. There are times when I prefer to view a git log from that repo, but without seeing the auto commits. I guess it could be described as an inverted "git log --author" or a "git log --exclude-author=botuser", if such as option had existed.
Currently I do the following, shortcuted to a bash alias.
git log --format="%H %aE" | grep -v -F botuser@domain | while read hash email; do git log -1 $hash; echo; done | less
My question is if there is a less hackish solution to what I want to accomplish?
From https://coderwall.com/p/tzdzwa :
git log --perl-regexp --author='^((?!excluded-author-regex).*)$'
This worked for me.
If you don't want to specify --perl-regexp
every time you can do:
git config --global grep.patternType perl