From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 02:57:10 GMT Subject: [PATCH 1/5] Documentation/shortlog: scripted users should not rely on implicit HEAD Message-ID: <20100504025710.GB7322@progeny.tock> In-Reply-To: <20100504025217.GA7322@progeny.tock> When passed no revision arguments, ‘git shortlog’ reads a log from stdin if and only if stdin is not a tty. So scripts that need to function identically when standard input is a terminal (as when run interactively) and not (as when run through a cron job) should either supply a log themselves or specify the desired revisions explicitly. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder --- Documentation/git-shortlog.txt | 7 ++++++- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt b/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt index dfd4d0c..f11ea90 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] git log --pretty=short | 'git shortlog' [-h] [-n] [-s] [-e] [-w] -'git shortlog' [-n|--numbered] [-s|--summary] [-e|--email] [-w[[,[,]]]] [...] +'git shortlog' [-n|--numbered] [-s|--summary] [-e|--email] [-w[[,[,]]]] ... DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -19,6 +19,11 @@ the first line of the commit message will be shown. Additionally, "[PATCH]" will be stripped from the commit description. +If no revisions are passed on the command line and either standard input +is not a terminal or there is no current branch, 'git shortlog' will +output a summary of the log read from standard input, without +reference to the current repository. + OPTIONS ------- -- 1.6.5