[PATCH] git-shortlog.txt: mention commit filtering options

From: Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com>
Date: Oct 30, 2019, 20:36 UTC
Message-ID: <20191030203603.27497-1-me@yadavpratyush.com>

git-shortlog, like git-log, supports options to filter what commits are used to generate the log. These options come from git-rev-list. Add a pointer to these options in the documentation page so readers can know these filtering options can be used with git-shortlog too.

Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com>
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Since [0] didn't get any responses, I figured a patch might get some
more attention since it is something concrete to comment on.

[0] https://public-inbox.org/git/20191024191709.gqkjljuibyashtma@yadavpratyush.com/

 Documentation/git-shortlog.txt | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt b/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt
index bc80905a8a..acae695388 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt
@@ -76,6 +76,11 @@ them.
 Paths may need to be prefixed with `--` to separate them from
 options or the revision range, when confusion arises.

+In addition to the options above, 'git shortlog' also supports a range of
+options to select which subset of commits will be used to generate the
+shortlog. A list of these options can be found in the "Commit Limiting"
+section of linkgit:git-rev-list[1].
+
 MAPPING AUTHORS
 ---------------

--
2.21.0