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git shortlog --committer vs --committer=<pattern>

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MCManuel Rego Casasnovas <rego@igalia.com>
Date
Jan 13, 2026, 15:22 UTC
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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
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