From: <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
To: "'Manuel Rego Casasnovas'" <rego@igalia.com>, <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: git shortlog --committer vs --committer=<pattern>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 10:49:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <018701dc84a4$39555970$ac000c50$@nexbridge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e2733434-f632-4be5-a9e0-28412b4043c4@igalia.com>
On January 13, 2026 10:23 AM, Manuel Rego Casasnovas wrote:
>Doing something like this in a Git repository returns an error (git version 2.51.0):
>$ git shortlog --committer=foo
>error: option `committer' takes no value
>
>However the option "--committer=<pattern>" is in the documentation:
>https://git-scm.com/docs/git-shortlog#Documentation/git-shortlog.txt---
>committerpattern
>
>But it seems to be in conflict with "--committer":
>https://git-scm.com/docs/git-shortlog#Documentation/git-shortlog.txt---
>committer
>
>It would be nice to either allow using "--committer=<pattern>" for shortlog, or if
>that's not possible fix the documentation.
I do not see --committer=<pattern>, but do see --committer pattern in the online
help and documentation. --committer is an alias for --group=committer.
Pattern applies to the log entries.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-13 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-13 15:22 git shortlog --committer vs --committer=<pattern> Manuel Rego Casasnovas
2026-01-13 15:49 ` rsbecker [this message]
2026-01-13 16:20 ` Pushkar Singh
2026-01-13 18:01 ` Pushkar Singh
2026-01-13 15:52 ` Junio C Hamano
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