added the exclude feature so that you much more easily can write commits

src_code/go_src/cocommit.go

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"os/exec"
 	"regexp"
+	"slices"
 	"strings"
 )
 
@@ -14,8 +15,10 @@ type user struct {
 	email    string
 }
 
+var users = make(map[string]user)
+var sb strings.Builder
+
 func main() {
-	users := make(map[string]user)
 
 	// Reads a shell env variable :: author_file
 	authors := os.Getenv("author_file")
@@ -48,21 +51,17 @@ func main() {
 
 	NoInput(args, users)
 
+	excludeMode := []string{}
 
 	// builds the commit message with the selected authors
-	var sb strings.Builder
+	sb.WriteString(string(args[0]) + "\n")
-	sb.WriteString(string(args[0])+"\n")
 	reg, _ := regexp.Compile("([^:]+):([^:]+)")
 
-	for _, commiter := range args[1:] {
+	for _, committer := range args[1:] {
-		if _, ok := users[commiter]; ok {
+		if _, ok := users[committer]; ok {
-			sb.WriteString("\nCo-authored-by: ")
+			sb_author(committer)
-			sb.WriteString(users[commiter].username)
+		} else if match := reg.MatchString(committer); match {
-			sb.WriteString(" <")
+			str := strings.Split(committer, ":")
-			sb.WriteString(users[commiter].email)
-			sb.WriteRune('>')
-		} else if match := reg.MatchString(commiter); match {
-			str := strings.Split(commiter, ":")
 
 			sb.WriteString("\nCo-authored-by: ")
 			sb.WriteString(str[0])
@@ -70,13 +69,27 @@ func main() {
 			sb.WriteString(str[1])
 			sb.WriteRune('>')
 
+		} else if committer[0] == '^' {
+			excludeMode = append(excludeMode, users[committer[1:]].username)
+
 		} else {
-			println(commiter, " was unknown. User either not defined or name typed wrong")
+			println(committer, " was unknown. User either not defined or name typed wrong")
+		}
+	}
+
+	if len(excludeMode) > 0 {
+		for key, user := range users {
+			if !slices.Contains(excludeMode, user.username) {
+				sb_author(key)
+				excludeMode = append(excludeMode, user.username)
+			}
 		}
 	}
 	// commit msg built
 	commit := sb.String()
 
+	print(commit)
+
 	// commit shell command
 	cmd := exec.Command("git", "commit", "-m", commit)
 
@@ -92,7 +105,15 @@ func main() {
 
 }
 
-//TODO: move half this into another function and call before building users to improve performance
+func sb_author(committer string) {
+	sb.WriteString("\nCo-authored-by: ")
+	sb.WriteString(users[committer].username)
+	sb.WriteString(" <")
+	sb.WriteString(users[committer].email)
+	sb.WriteRune('>')
+}
+
+// TODO: move half this into another function and call before building users to improve performance
 func NoInput(args []string, users map[string]user) {
 	if len(args) < 2 {
 		// If you call binary with users prints users