RE: git shortlog --committer vs --committer=<pattern>

From: rsbecker@nexbridge.com <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Date: Jan 13, 2026, 15:49 UTC
Message-ID: <018701dc84a4$39555970$ac000c50$@nexbridge.com>
In-Reply-To: <e2733434-f632-4be5-a9e0-28412b4043c4@igalia.com>

On January 13, 2026 10:23 AM, Manuel Rego Casasnovas wrote:

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>Doing something like this in a Git repository returns an error (git version 2.51.0):
>$ git shortlog --committer=foo
>error: option `committer' takes no value
>
>However the option "--committer=<pattern>" is in the documentation:
>https://git-scm.com/docs/git-shortlog#Documentation/git-shortlog.txt---
>committerpattern
>
>But it seems to be in conflict with "--committer":
>https://git-scm.com/docs/git-shortlog#Documentation/git-shortlog.txt---
>committer
>
>It would be nice to either allow using "--committer=<pattern>" for shortlog, or if
>that's not possible fix the documentation.

I do not see --committer=<pattern>, but do see --committer pattern in the online help and documentation. --committer is an alias for --group=committer. Pattern applies to the log entries.