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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Lawrence Siebert <lawrencesiebert@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, Johannes.Schindelin@gmx•de,
	apelisse@gmail•com, jrnieder@gmail•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] --count feature for git shortlog
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 21:37:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq1tgvdt9u.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1435540922-12208-1-git-send-email-lawrencesiebert@gmail.com> (Lawrence Siebert's message of "Sun, 28 Jun 2015 18:22:00 -0700")

Lawrence Siebert <lawrencesiebert@gmail•com> writes:

> This is a new feature for short log, which lets you count commits on a per
> file or repository basis easily.
>
> Currently if you want a total count of commits with shortlog, you would
> need to add up each authors commits after using --summary. This adds a 
> -N / --count option to shortlog for this purpose.
  
The standard way to do that is

    git log --oneline ... whatever other args ... | wc -l

or more kosher from a script

    git rev-list ... whatever other args ... | wc -l

Adding an option to ignore per-author breakdown smells backwards.
The whole point of shortlog is to give you the commit stats broken
out for each author.  I guess it is not so far-fetched to add an
option to "git log" to only show the number of commits that would be
output, if you really wanted to avoid "| wc -l", but this option
does not belong to shortlog.

And it certainly does not deserve a short-and-sweet single letter
option "-N", I think.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-06-29  4:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-29  1:22 [PATCH] --count feature for git shortlog Lawrence Siebert
2015-06-29  1:22 ` Lawrence Siebert
2015-06-29  1:22 ` Lawrence Siebert
2015-06-29  4:37 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
     [not found]   ` <CAKDoJU4HcGoOS83MKwsQBXztYrDomMd9N-2SKc6iRyNhQQM5Eg@mail.gmail.com>
2015-06-29 16:46     ` Lawrence Siebert
2015-06-29 17:04       ` Junio C Hamano
2015-06-29 21:33         ` Lawrence Siebert
2015-06-30 12:10       ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-06-30 12:23         ` John Keeping
     [not found]           ` <CAKDoJU4cEvWvfnFsvfOJ_P0UOrD3RpLK1NdfxaUPiDTWXYg-oA@mail.gmail.com>
2015-07-01  3:00             ` Lawrence Siebert
2015-07-01 11:50               ` Jeff King
2015-07-01 15:15                 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-03 17:31           ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-03 23:32             ` Lawrence Siebert
2015-07-21 18:27               ` Jakub Narębski

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