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Re: git-shortlog hangs on bare repo without --bare option

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René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Date
Aug 27, 2008, 21:40 UTC
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Garry Dolley schrieb:
> I didn't see this happen with git 1.5.x, but if you do git-shortlog on a bare 
> repo, without specifying --bare, the command will seemingly hang indefinitely.

FWIW, I tried git 1.5.0 and it hangs, too. Which exact version did work for you? Could you, based on it, bisect the commit that introduced this behaviour?

As a workaround, you can use "git log | git shortlog".
René
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