From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from secure.elehost.com (secure.elehost.com [185.209.179.11]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EA2712D7393 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:58:21 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=185.209.179.11 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1768319904; cv=none; b=fnk7l3eYFxil8tID5LeCH9yXK2lUC2uexZo3vxK3HR4gUV1aeLItWPZBaxnhbg2UYCahW64QKuab5e1tHy9sQxvB5P0T9foZYc3m7Y5OCRzGVqxWTCeCvNDoN4v7GvN7EiV2NKjcXKzL8N8E7SHPOMVtEv53rGCuPy3sH/PAXXU= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1768319904; c=relaxed/simple; bh=ehsNFkMr2KLsXXtY+AwoTgtjsp9iN0OoDyY+4VlrzWo=; h=From:To:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=NdojhbmGvOJ+TRLthlAlUGu7zLbk9mML2Q9jcjxmZBSVz5TVYilDmzmVZoD5hAOIXh9zdALu7KmN/XrD07x4llS04iNajG1RsG4aIyzUVfseXlCtdI53IZZqQr/2BwCjXU9DDLtF/RotKTG9B9jFGisfNrZd3UfD5mwJ38x9Y1Q= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=nexbridge.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=nexbridge.com; arc=none smtp.client-ip=185.209.179.11 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=nexbridge.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=nexbridge.com X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at secure.elehost.com Received: from Mazikeen (pool-99-228-67-183.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [99.228.67.183]) (authenticated bits=0) by secure.elehost.com (8.15.2/8.15.2/Debian-22ubuntu3) with ESMTPSA id 60DFncoI148835 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:49:38 GMT Reply-To: From: To: "'Manuel Rego Casasnovas'" , References: In-Reply-To: Subject: RE: git shortlog --committer vs --committer= Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 10:49:32 -0500 Organization: Nexbridge Inc. Message-ID: <018701dc84a4$39555970$ac000c50$@nexbridge.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 16.0 Content-Language: en-ca Thread-Index: AQERmRoTD/v82/K6ZL5Eq2JmOn97NrbmFdHQ X-Antivirus: Norton (VPS 260113-4, 1/13/2026), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean On January 13, 2026 10:23 AM, Manuel Rego Casasnovas wrote: >Doing something like this in a Git repository returns an error (git = version 2.51.0): >$ git shortlog --committer=3Dfoo >error: option `committer' takes no value > >However the option "--committer=3D" 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=3D" for = shortlog, or if >that's not possible fix the documentation. I do not see --committer=3D, but do see --committer pattern in = the online help and documentation. --committer is an alias for --group=3Dcommitter. Pattern applies to the log entries.