git shortlog --committer vs --committer=<pattern>
- From
- Manuel Rego Casasnovas <rego@igalia.com>
- Date
- Jan 13, 2026, 15:22 UTC
- Message-ID
- <e2733434-f632-4be5-a9e0-28412b4043c4@igalia.com>
Hi,
Doing something like this in a Git repository returns an error (git version 2.51.0): $ git shortlog --committer=foo error: option `committer' takes no value
However the option "--committer=<pattern>" is in the documentation: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-shortlog#Documentation/git-shortlog.txt---committerpattern
But it seems to be in conflict with "--committer": https://git-scm.com/docs/git-shortlog#Documentation/git-shortlog.txt---committer
It would be nice to either allow using "--committer=<pattern>" for shortlog, or if that's not possible fix the documentation.
Thanks, Rego