Feature request: Can --sign/--ack/--review be given an email address as an optional parameter

[dhowells]

Can it be made such that stg edit --sign/--ack/--review can be given a parameter to indicate the address to be used instead of using the address of whoever's running the command? E.g.:

stg edit --sign="David Howells [email protected]"

[jpgrayson]

Under the hood, StGit uses optparse for options parsing which does not have built-in support for options with optional arguments. It may be possible to achieve this somehow, but it's not obvious to me how to do it.

A more straightforward alternative would be to have a parallel set of options that required an argument. For example, --sign-as, --ack-as, and --review-as. These could used in the normal manner of GNU-style options, i.e. either with or without =:

stg edit --sign-as="David Howells <[email protected]>" or
stg edit --sign-as "David Howells <[email protected]>"

I am open to a PR that either adds these new options or somehow figures out how to make an optional argument work with the existing options.

[dhowells]

A separate parameter, eg. --sign-as, would be fine.