diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-shortlog.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-shortlog.txt | 108 |
1 files changed, 50 insertions, 58 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt b/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt index 498bd28929..ee6c5476c1 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt @@ -3,29 +3,29 @@ 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 log --pretty=short | 'git shortlog' [<options>] +'git shortlog' [<options>] [<revision range>] [[\--] <path>...] DESCRIPTION ----------- -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. +Summarizes 'git log' output in a format suitable for inclusion +in release announcements. Each commit will be grouped by author and title. 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 ------- --h:: ---help:: - Print a short usage message and exit. - -n:: --numbered:: Sort output according to the number of commits per author instead @@ -39,59 +39,51 @@ 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 '* [%h] %s'. + (See the "PRETTY FORMATS" section of linkgit:git-log[1].) + + Each pretty-printed commit will be rewrapped before it is shown. + +-c:: +--committer:: + Collect and show committer identities instead of authors. + -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 a file `.mailmap` exists at the toplevel of the repository, -it is used to map an author email address to a canonical real name. This -can be used to coalesce together commits by the same person where their -name was spelled differently (whether with the same email address or -not). - -Each line in the file consists, in this order, of the canonical real name -of an author, whitespace, and an email address (enclosed by '<' and '>') -to map to the name. Use hash '#' for comments, either on their own line, -or after the email address. - -A canonical name may appear in more than one line, associated with -different email addresses, but it doesn't make sense for a given address -to appear more than once (if that happens, a later line overrides the -earlier ones). - -So, for example, if your history contains commits by two authors, Jane -and Joe, whose names appear in the repository under several forms: - ------------- -Joe Developer <joe@example.com> -Joe R. Developer <joe@example.com> -Jane Doe <jane@example.com> -Jane Doe <jane@laptop.(none)> -Jane D. <jane@desktop.(none)> ------------- - -Then, supposing Joe wants his middle name initial used, and Jane prefers -her family name fully spelled out, a proper `.mailmap` file would look like: - ------------- -# Note how we don't need an entry for <jane@laptop.(none)>, because the -# real name of that author is correct already, and coalesced directly. -Jane Doe <jane@desktop.(none)> -Joe R. Developer <joe@example.com> ------------- - -Author ------- -Written by Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> - -Documentation --------------- -Documentation by Junio C Hamano. ++ +If width is `0` (zero) then indent the lines of the output without wrapping +them. + +<revision range>:: + Show only commits in the specified revision range. When no + <revision range> is specified, it defaults to `HEAD` (i.e. the + whole history leading to the current commit). `origin..HEAD` + specifies all the commits reachable from the current commit + (i.e. `HEAD`), but not from `origin`. For a complete list of + ways to spell <revision range>, see the "Specifying Ranges" + section of linkgit:gitrevisions[7]. + +[\--] <path>...:: + Consider only commits that are enough to explain how the files + that match the specified paths came to be. ++ +Paths may need to be prefixed with "\-- " to separate them from +options or the revision range, when confusion arises. + +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[] GIT --- |