From 0677aba16a58d5a945ebb65fe1bf6ad6f78e6895 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Swapnil Negi <swapnil.negi09@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 03:37:21 +0530
Subject: modtool: add option for copyrightholder

fixes #1587
---
 gr-utils/python/modtool/scm.py | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

(limited to 'gr-utils/python/modtool/scm.py')

diff --git a/gr-utils/python/modtool/scm.py b/gr-utils/python/modtool/scm.py
index 9b0ef7db5e..aa4f94d531 100644
--- a/gr-utils/python/modtool/scm.py
+++ b/gr-utils/python/modtool/scm.py
@@ -81,6 +81,13 @@ class SCMRepository(object):
         """ Returns true if this repository manager is operating on an active, source-controlled directory. """
         return self.is_empty
 
+    def get_gituser(self):
+        """ Gets the git user """
+        try:
+            return subprocess.check_output('git config --global user.name', shell=True).strip()
+        except (OSError, subprocess.CalledProcessError):
+            return None
+
 
 ### Git #####################################################################
 class GitManagerGitPython(object):
-- 
cgit v1.2.3