Pretty print author's git log to JSON

gistfile1.txt

git log --author="AUTHOR"\
    --pretty=format:'{"commit": "%H", "author": "%aN <%aE>", "date": "%ai", "message": """%B""", "notes": """%N""" },' \
    $@  | awk 'BEGIN { print("[") } { print($0) } END { print("]") }' | \
    python -u -c 'import ast,json,sys; fp = open("gitlog.json", "w"); \
    fp.write(json.dumps(ast.literal_eval(sys.stdin.read()), indent=2, sort_keys=True)); fp.close()'

Gets a pretty printed JSON file containing info about a certain author's commits (all of them) in a repo.

Adapted from https://gist.github.com/cekstam/a7758b8f315835d479f379715eebd0c3