Re: Allow "git shortlog" to group by committer information

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Dec 15, 2016, 21:29 UTC
Message-ID: <CA+55aFxSQ2wxU3cA+8uqS-W8mbobF35dVCZow2BcixGOOvGVFQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFzWkE43rSm-TJNKkHq4F3eOiGR0-Bo9V1=a1s=vQ0KPqQ@mail.gmail.com>

Just a ping on this patch..

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

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> In some situations you may want to group the commits not by author,
> but by committer instead.
>
> For example, when I just wanted to look up what I'm still missing from
> linux-next in the current merge window [..]

It's another merge window later for the kernel, and I just re-applied this patch to my git tree because I still want to know teh committer information rather than the authorship information, and it still seems to be the simplest way to do that.

Jeff had apparently done something similar as part of a bigger patch-series, but I don't see that either. I really don't care very much how this is done, but I do find this very useful, I do things like

   git shortlog -cnse linus..next |
        head -20 |
        cut -f2 |
        sed 's/$/,/'

to generate a nice list of the top-20 committers that I haven't gotten pull requests from yet.

Yes, I can just maintain this myself, and maybe nobody else needs it, but it's pretty simple and straightforward, and there didn't seem to be any real reason not to have the option..

                 Linus