From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2015 15:15:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] --count feature for git shortlog
Message-ID: <xmqqh9pnc3jk.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150701115036.GA31158@peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Note that this would not work with, say:
>
>   git rev-list --use-bitmap-index --count HEAD -- Makefile
>
> as the bitmap index does not have enough information to do path limiting
> (we should probably disallow this or fall back to the non-bitmap code
> path, but right now we just ignore the path limiter).

Yeah, at least the former but preferrably the latter.

Thanks.