NAME
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-git-shortlog - Summarize 'git log' output
+git-shortlog - Summarize 'git-log' output
SYNOPSIS
--------
-git-log --pretty=short | 'git-shortlog' [-h] [-n] [-s]
+[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>...]
DESCRIPTION
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-Summarizes 'git log' output in a format suitable for inclusion
+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.
-------
-h::
+--help::
Print a short usage message and exit.
-n::
+--numbered::
Sort output according to the number of commits per author instead
of author alphabetic order.
-s::
- Supress commit description and provide a commit count summary only.
+--summary::
+ Suppress commit description and provide a commit count summary only.
+
+-e::
+--email::
+ Show the email address of each author.
+
+-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
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-'.mailmap'::
- If this file exists, it will be used for mapping author email
- addresses to a real author name. One mapping per line, first
- the author name followed by the email address enclosed by
- '<' and '>'. Use hash '#' for comments. Example:
- # Keep alphabetized
- Adam Morrow <adam@localhost.localdomain>
- Eve Jones <eve@laptop.(none)>
+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@random.com>
+------------
Author
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GIT
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-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
-
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite