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diff --git a/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt b/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt index 7ccf31ccc4..5cc3baf48d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt @@ -3,22 +3,27 @@ git-shortlog(1) NAME ---- -git-shortlog - Summarize 'git-log' output +git-shortlog - Summarize 'git log' output SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] git log --pretty=short | 'git shortlog' [-h] [-n] [-s] [-e] [-w] -git shortlog [-n|--numbered] [-s|--summary] [-e|--email] [-w[<width>[,<indent1>[,<indent2>]]]] [<committish>...] +'git shortlog' [-n|--numbered] [-s|--summary] [-e|--email] [-w[<width>[,<indent1>[,<indent2>]]]] <commit>... DESCRIPTION ----------- -Summarizes 'git-log' output in a format suitable for inclusion +Summarizes 'git log' output in a format suitable for inclusion in release announcements. Each commit will be grouped by author and the first line of the commit message will be shown. Additionally, "[PATCH]" will be stripped from the commit description. +If no revisions are passed on the command line and either standard input +is not a terminal or there is no current branch, 'git shortlog' will +output a summary of the log read from standard input, without +reference to the current repository. + OPTIONS ------- @@ -39,25 +44,30 @@ OPTIONS --email:: Show the email address of each author. +--format[=<format>]:: + Instead of the commit subject, use some other information to + describe each commit. '<format>' can be any string accepted + by the `--format` option of 'git log', such as '{asterisk} [%h] %s'. + (See the "PRETTY FORMATS" section of linkgit:git-log[1].) + + Each pretty-printed commit will be rewrapped before it is shown. + -w[<width>[,<indent1>[,<indent2>]]]:: Linewrap the output by wrapping each line at `width`. The first line of each entry is indented by `indent1` spaces, and the second and subsequent lines are indented by `indent2` spaces. `width`, `indent1`, and `indent2` default to 76, 6 and 9 respectively. -FILES ------ -If the file `.mailmap` exists, it will be used for mapping author -email addresses to a real author name. One mapping per line, first -the author name followed by the email address enclosed by -'<' and '>'. Use hash '#' for comments. Example: +MAPPING AUTHORS +--------------- + +The `.mailmap` feature is used to coalesce together commits by the same +person in the shortlog, where their name and/or email address was +spelled differently. + +include::mailmap.txt[] ------------- -# Keep alphabetized -Adam Morrow <adam@localhost.localdomain> -Eve Jones <eve@laptop.(none)> ------------- Author ------ |