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1 git-shortlog(1)
2 ===============
3
4 NAME
5 ----
6 git-shortlog - Summarize `git log` output
7
8 SYNOPSIS
9 --------
10 [synopsis]
11 git shortlog [<options>] [<revision-range>] [[--] <path>...]
12 git log --pretty=short | git shortlog [<options>]
13
14 DESCRIPTION
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16 Summarizes `git log` output in a format suitable for inclusion
17 in release announcements. Each commit will be grouped by author and title.
18
19 Additionally, "[PATCH]" will be stripped from the commit description.
20
21 If no revisions are passed on the command line and either standard input
22 is not a terminal or there is no current branch, `git shortlog` will
23 output a summary of the log read from standard input, without
24 reference to the current repository.
25
26 OPTIONS
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28
29 `-n`::
30 `--numbered`::
31 Sort output according to the number of commits per author instead
32 of author alphabetic order.
33
34 `-s`::
35 `--summary`::
36 Suppress commit description and provide a commit count summary only.
37
38 `-e`::
39 `--email`::
40 Show the email address of each author.
41
42 `--format[=<format>]`::
43 Instead of the commit subject, use some other information to
44 describe each commit. _<format>_ can be any string accepted
45 by the `--format` option of `git log`, such as '* [%h] %s'.
46 (See the 'PRETTY FORMATS' section of linkgit:git-log[1].)
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48 Each pretty-printed commit will be rewrapped before it is shown.
49
50 `--date=<format>`::
51 Show dates formatted according to the given date string. (See
52 the `--date` option in the 'Commit Formatting' section of
53 linkgit:git-log[1]). Useful with `--group=format:<format>`.
54
55 `--group=<type>`::
56 Group commits based on _<type>_. If no `--group` option is
57 specified, the default is `author`. _<type>_ is one of:
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59 --
60 - `author`, commits are grouped by author
61 - `committer`, commits are grouped by committer (the same as `-c`)
62 - `trailer:<field>`, the _<field>_ is interpreted as a case-insensitive
63 commit message trailer (see linkgit:git-interpret-trailers[1]). For
64 example, if your project uses `Reviewed-by` trailers, you might want
65 to see who has been reviewing with
66 `git shortlog -ns --group=trailer:reviewed-by`.
67 +
68 Note that commits that do not include the trailer will not be counted.
69 Likewise, commits with multiple trailers (e.g., multiple signoffs) may
70 be counted more than once (but only once per unique trailer value in
71 that commit).
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73 Shortlog will attempt to parse each trailer value as a `name <email>`
74 identity. If successful, the mailmap is applied and the email is omitted
75 unless the `--email` option is specified. If the value cannot be parsed
76 as an identity, it will be taken literally and completely.
77
78 - `format:<format>`, any string accepted by the `--format` option of
79 `git log`. (See the 'PRETTY FORMATS' section of
80 linkgit:git-log[1].)
81 --
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83 If `--group` is specified multiple times, commits are counted under each
84 value (but again, only once per unique value in that commit). For
85 example, `git shortlog --group=author --group=trailer:co-authored-by`
86 counts both authors and co-authors.
87
88 `-c`::
89 `--committer`::
90 This is an alias for `--group=committer`.
91
92 `-w[<width>[,<indent1>[,<indent2>]]]`::
93 Linewrap the output by wrapping each line at `width`. The first
94 line of each entry is indented by `indent1` spaces, and the second
95 and subsequent lines are indented by `indent2` spaces. `width`,
96 `indent1`, and `indent2` default to 76, 6 and 9 respectively.
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98 If width is `0` (zero) then indent the lines of the output without wrapping
99 them.
100
101 `<revision-range>`::
102 Show only commits in the specified revision range. When no
103 _<revision-range>_ is specified, it defaults to `HEAD` (i.e. the
104 whole history leading to the current commit). `origin..HEAD`
105 specifies all the commits reachable from the current commit
106 (i.e. `HEAD`), but not from `origin`. For a complete list of
107 ways to spell _<revision-range>_, see the 'Specifying Ranges'
108 section of linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
109
110 `[--] <path>...`::
111 Consider only commits that are enough to explain how the files
112 that match the specified paths came to be.
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114 Paths may need to be prefixed with `--` to separate them from
115 options or the revision range, when confusion arises.
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117 :git-shortlog: 1
118 include::rev-list-options.adoc[]
119
120 MAPPING AUTHORS
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122
123 See linkgit:gitmailmap[5].
124
125 Note that if `git shortlog` is run outside of a repository (to process
126 log contents on standard input), it will look for a `.mailmap` file in
127 the current directory.
128
129 GIT
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131 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite