Subject: Re: [PATCH] --count feature for git shortlog

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2015 08:15:27 -0700

Jeff King <[email-masked]> writes:

> Note that this would not work with, say:
>
>   git rev-list --use-bitmap-index --count HEAD -- Makefile
>
> as the bitmap index does not have enough information to do path limiting
> (we should probably disallow this or fall back to the non-bitmap code
> path, but right now we just ignore the path limiter).

Yeah, at least the former but preferrably the latter.

Thanks.