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===== Overview =====

Most useful options for ''git shortlog'', using "Pro Git" book repo as an example.

===== SYNOPSIS =====

Part of it:

<code>
git shortlog [<options>] [<revision range>] [[--] <path>...]
</code>
===== (Some) OPTIONS =====

<code>
-n, --numbered
    Sort output according to the number of commits per author
    instead of author alphabetic order.

-s, --summary
    Suppress commit description and provide a commit count
    summary only.
           
    ... snip ...

<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 gitrevisions(7).

[--] <path>...
    Consider only commits that are enough to explain how the
    files that match the specified paths came to be.
</code>

===== Examples =====

Default output:

<code>
$ git shortlog
4wk- (1):
      4wk: ajusting the documentation - see #1053 and #1054

Adam Laflamme (1):
      - Fixed a typo in hooks.asc.  Issue #1169.

Adrien Ollier (42):
      removed and ignored Gemfile.lock
      added escaped quotation marks for git commit's message.
      added a new section for Git as a client for a Bazaar repository
      added a new section to import a Bazaar repository into a Git repository
      Modifications done as per Ben's suggestions.
      minor modifications
      removed trailing spaces
      ... snip ...
</code>

Sort according to contributions:

<code>
$ git shortlog -n
Ben Straub (803):
      Fix markdown H4's (convert into asciidoc H5's)
      Remove trailing spaces
      Add remaining headers to outline
      GitHub is a chapter
      Tweak github chapter
      Three trees
      Add some things
      Feedback
      ... snip ...
</code>

Just print a summary:

<code>
$ git shortlog -n -s 
   803  Ben Straub
   306  Scott Chacon
   105  Robert P. J. Day
    52  Jean-Noël Avila
    50  Cory Donnelly
    42  Adrien Ollier
    24  Kaartic Sivaraam
    20  Yue Lin Ho
    11  Markus KARG
    10  Kyrylo Yatsenko
    10  Sanders Kleinfeld
    ... snip ...
</code>

Don't count merge commits:

<code>
$ git shortlog -n -s --no-merges
   803  Ben Straub
   306  Scott Chacon
   105  Robert P. J. Day
    52  Jean-Noël Avila
    50  Cory Donnelly
    42  Adrien Ollier
    24  Kaartic Sivaraam
    20  Yue Lin Ho
    11  Markus KARG
    10  Kyrylo Yatsenko
    10  Sanders Kleinfeld
    ... snip ...
</code>

Restrict to a pathspec:

<code>
$ git shortlog -n -s --no-merges -- images
     5  Scott Chacon
     2  Adrien Ollier
     1  Ben Straub
     1  Duncan Dean
     1  Yunhai Luo
     $
</code>