# merge noise in git-shortlog output

2 messages from 2005-09-06 to 2005-09-06. Participants: Luck, Tony, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/1740

## Luck, Tony, 2005-09-06 21:44

Subject: merge noise in git-shortlog output
Message-ID: <200509062144.j86Li04N010540@agluck-lia64.sc.intel.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/200509062144.j86Li04N010540%40agluck-lia64.sc.intel.com

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Looking at the shortlog information for 2.6.13 there are a lot (eleven)
of changes attributed to me that look like:

  Auto merge with /home/aegl/GIT/linus

This is valid (I really did make all those commits, they happen every
time I merge the "linus" branch into my release branch, which I like to
do quite often so I'm working near the bleeding edge), but it doesn't
seem all that useful in the "short" log output[1]

If "Auto merge" isn't a good string to match for the purposes of
trimming, then I can make my scripts use something else.

-Tony

[1] unless I can persuade Intel to base my bonus on the number of
commits I get included into the base :-)

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## Junio C Hamano, 2005-09-06 22:02

Subject: Re: merge noise in git-shortlog output
Message-ID: <7vfyshg8ia.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vfyshg8ia.fsf%40assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net
In-Reply-To: <200509062144.j86Li04N010540@agluck-lia64.sc.intel.com>

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"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> writes:

> This is valid (I really did make all those commits, they happen every
> time I merge the "linus" branch into my release branch, which I like to
> do quite often so I'm working near the bleeding edge), but it doesn't
> seem all that useful in the "short" log output[1]

Are there interesting merges and uninteresting automerges?  Are
all merges more or less uninteresting?  If merges are not
interesting:

    $ git log --no-merges --pretty=short $rev $argu $ments | git shortlog

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