equivalence of: git log --exclude-author?

Question

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

Answer 1

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