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[PATCH 0/14] counting trailers with shortlogs

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Dec 29, 2015, 07:18 UTC
Message-ID
<20151229071847.GA8726@sigill.intra.peff.net>

I happened to be reading an old discussion on trailers a few weeks ago, and the idea was mentioned of providing access to commit trailers in a more structured way from traversal commands. E.g., we could presumably have a log pretty-format for showing "Signed-off-by", like "%(trailer:signed-off-by)" or something. But that opens up a lot of questions, like the exact formatting, whether we would allow wildcards ("*-by:"), and if so how that affects formatting.

So I took the cowards way out and implemented trailer support for git-shortlog, which seemed much simpler. I'll admit I haven't used it for anything so far beyond a few "fun" queries, but it does provide some infrastructure we could use later for git-log.

And things being what they are, I ended up with a few cleanups and optimizations along the way. After this series, a regular "shortlog -ns" is about 10% faster.

  [01/14]: move string functions out of git-compat-util
  [02/14]: log: refactor add_header to drop some magic numbers
  [03/14]: strutil: add skip_prefix_case
  [04/14]: shortlog: use skip_prefix_icase to parse "Author" lines
  [05/14]: shortlog: use strbufs to read from stdin
  [06/14]: shortlog: replace hand-parsing of author with pretty-printer
  [07/14]: shortlog: optimize "--summary" mode
  [08/14]: shortlog: optimize out useless "<none>" normalization
  [09/14]: shortlog: optimize out useless string list
  [10/14]: shortlog: change "author" variables to "ident"
  [11/14]: shortlog: allow grouping by committer ident
  [12/14]: trailer: factor out config reading
  [13/14]: trailer: add interface for parsing commit trailers
  [14/14]: shortlog: match commit trailers with --ident
-Peff
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Message 1 of 29 in “counting trailers with shortlogs”
  1. 0/14 counting trailers with shortlogsJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  2. 01/14 move string functions out of git-compat-utilJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  3. 02/14 log: refactor add_header to drop some magic numbersJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  4. Eric SunshineDec 31, 2015
  5. Jeff KingJan 1, 2016
  6. Jeff KingJan 1, 2016
  7. 03/14 strutil: add skip_prefix_icaseJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  8. Eric SunshineDec 31, 2015
  9. Jeff KingJan 1, 2016
  10. 04/14 shortlog: use skip_prefix_icase to parse "Author" linesJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  11. Eric SunshineDec 31, 2015
  12. Jeff KingJan 1, 2016
  13. 05/14 shortlog: use strbufs to read from stdinJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  14. 06/14 shortlog: replace hand-parsing of author with pretty-printerJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  15. Eric SunshineJan 4, 2016
  16. Jeff KingJan 4, 2016
  17. 07/14 shortlog: optimize "--summary" modeJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  18. 08/14 shortlog: optimize out useless "<none>" normalizationJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  19. 09/14 shortlog: optimize out useless string listJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  20. 10/14 shortlog: change "author" variables to "ident"Jeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  21. 11/14 shortlog: allow grouping by committer identJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  22. Eric SunshineJan 4, 2016
  23. Jeff KingJan 4, 2016
  24. 12/14 trailer: factor out config readingJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  25. 13/14 trailer: add interface for parsing commit trailersJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  26. 14/14 shortlog: match commit trailers with --identJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  27. Jeff KingDec 29, 2015
  28. Eric SunshineJan 4, 2016
  29. Jeff KingJan 4, 2016

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