commit pull request

cipreq.bash

cipreq() {

  if [ -z "$1" ]
  then
    echo `git log -1 --no-merges --pretty=format:'git commit -a --author="'"%an <%aE>"'" --message="'"%s %b"'"'`
    return 1
  fi

  AUTHOR=$1

  if [ -z "$2" ]
  then
    MSG=""
  else
    MSG="--grep=${2}"
  fi

  echo `git log -1 ${MSG} --author="${AUTHOR}" --no-merges --pretty=format:'git commit -a --author="'"%an <%aE>"'" --message="'"%s %b"'"'`
}

If the author committed again after sending the pull request and that other commit was merged in, you can specify a distinctive word within the commit message that you're targeting. It would look like this:

cipreq Karl somethingFromCommit

This is starting to feel hackish. I wish I knew how to do command-line arguments of the -- variety so we could do something like cipreq --author=Karl --msg=somethingFromCommit