From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 20:22:22 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/8] Add new git-cc-cmd helper to contrib Message-ID: <7vip3hx88x.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <5171A387.808@kdbg.org> Johannes Sixt writes: >> But I think it can be useful outside the context of send-email as >> well, and having one independent tool that does one single job well >> is a better design. Perhaps it is better to name it less specific >> to send-email's cc-cmd option. "git people"? "git whom"? "git >> reviewers"? I dunno, but along those lines. > > Would it make sense to integrate this in git shortlog, which already > does something similar? Conceptually, yes, but the end result will be much larger in scope. I am not sure if "shortlog" is still a good label for it. "shortlog", when it internally runs "log" [*1*], is still about the commits within the range given to the command; "shortlog A..B" talks only about commits within A..B range. This new thing is about what happened to the part of the code A..B touches in the past (i.e. before A happened), which feels a bit different. [Footnote] *1* It can be used as a filter to "git log" output, which is a bit different animal, but it still is about shortening that incoming log, not about independently digging the history using the input as a starting point.