From: Manuel Rego Casasnovas <rego@igalia.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:22:31 GMT
Subject: git shortlog --committer vs --committer=<pattern>
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