Re: [PATCH 1/6] shortlog: match both "Author:" and "author" on stdin

> So it's not wrong, but it's perhaps more complicated than it needs to
> be. We could scrap this patch in favor of just:
>
>   if (!skip_prefix(author, "Author: ", &v) &&
>       !skip_prefix(author, "author ", &v))
>           continue;
>
> That is technically more strict (it does not take "author: ", which is
> accepted by the current code), but matches "git log" and "git log --raw"
> output, and misses nothing that git has ever generated. And it extends
> naturally to:
>
>   if (!skip_prefix(author, "Commit: ", &v) &&
>       !skip_prefix(author, "committer ", &v))
>           continue;