Re: [git pull] core/softirq for v2.6.27

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> As it is, that is one ugly function that only takes the one-liner thing - 
> at least partly because of how it traditionally worked (as a a filter over 
> the log messages, rather than as a "git shortlog xyz..abc" kind of 
> stand-alone thing).

Heh. I guess you _could_ use the filter capability here (but it will 
sometimes truncate the line, so..)

Some really ugly scripting like this will do it:

	#!/bin/sh
	git log --pretty='format:commit %H
	Author: %an <%ae>
	
	  %s (%h)
	' $@ | git shortlog

where we use the regular "git log" with a user-supplied format to generate 
a log with the subject line and the shortened hash appended (the "%s (%h)" 
part) and then we use "git shortlog" as a filter to sort things together 
by author etc.

There is absolutely _nothing_ that git won't do with a little bit of 
scripting, but I do have to admit that this one isn't a wonderfully 
beautiful script ;)

		Linus