Re: [RFC PATCH v2] builtin/shortlog: explicitly set hash algo when there is no repo

From: Wolfgang Müller <wolf@oriole.systems>
Date: Oct 16, 2024, 19:01 UTC
Message-ID: <wmx7z4qhvldtshatda73uzlcceyrmqjqnqmy5scivjfdzmfriq@x73trwmxjcdi>
In-Reply-To: <ZxALiDHkkq4yIP8R@nand.local>

On 2024-10-16 14:52, Taylor Blau wrote:

> As a nice piece of #leftoverbits, it would be appreciated to have a
> patch that amends git-shortlog(1) to indicate that '--format' is
> ignored when reading input from stdin.

Think I shall give that a look in the coming days, then, this is something I'd like to see fixed as well. Immediately what comes to my mind is that not only --format is ignored (--author is too if I'm not mistaken), so I'll see whether there's a nice way to indicate which specific options are valid when git-shortlog(1) reads from stdin.

-- 
Wolf

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