Re: [PATCH 3/3] shortlog: do not accept revisions when run outside repo

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Date

Mar 13, 2018, 21:46 UTC

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<78669e644b64fc10c34adb59717d2039f81cb092.1520680894.git.martin.agren@gmail.com>

Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> writes:

> in order to decide whether we should read from stdin. (So yes, after
> this patch, we will still silently ignore stdin for confused usage such
> as `git log v2.15.0.. | git shortlog v2.16.0..`. But at least that does
> not crash.)

    $ git log -p | git shortlog Documentation/

is also a nonsense request.  When outside a repository, i.e.

    $ git -C $path_to_repo | git shortlog Documentation/