Re: [git pull] core/softirq for v2.6.27

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Jul 14, 2008, 17:11 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807140948220.3305@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080714094422.e7ae255a.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:

> 
> This was a git-shortlog feature request ;)

Heh. You should cc git or Junio if so.

The way shortlog is done (very different from regular logs, due to the whole organize-by-name etc thing) that is sadly pretty ugly to do: we don't support the pretty-formats etc. And the way things are done, adding support for the generic "--pretty=xyz" (including custom formats) would be pretty painful.

So it would have to be a total special-case.

Junio, git people - what Andrew is asking for is for git shortlog to show the commit ID (in shortened form) at the end:

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> > It would be nice if these short-form summaries were to include the
> > commit IDs.  eg:
> > 
> > Carlos R. Mafra (1):
> >       Remove argument from open_softirq which is always NULL (962cf36)

and I do think it would be nice. I've had some other things I would find shortlog format additions useful for (size of patch etc), so if it could be somehow generalized that would be wonderful.

As it is, that is one ugly function that only takes the one-liner thing - at least partly because of how it traditionally worked (as a a filter over the log messages, rather than as a "git shortlog xyz..abc" kind of stand-alone thing).

		Linus