NAME
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-git-shortlog - Summarize 'git-log' output
+git-shortlog - Summarize 'git log' output
SYNOPSIS
--------
[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>...]
+'git shortlog' [-n|--numbered] [-s|--summary] [-e|--email] [-w[<width>[,<indent1>[,<indent2>]]]] <commit>...
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.
Additionally, "[PATCH]" will be stripped from the commit description.
+If no revisions are passed on the command line and either standard input
+is not a terminal or there is no current branch, 'git shortlog' will
+output a summary of the log read from standard input, without
+reference to the current repository.
+
OPTIONS
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--email::
Show the email address of each author.
+--format[='<format>']::
+ Instead of the commit subject, use some other information to
+ describe each commit. '<format>' can be any string accepted
+ by the `--format` option of 'git log', such as '{asterisk} [%h] %s'.
+ (See the "PRETTY FORMATS" section of linkgit:git-log[1].)
+
+ Each pretty-printed commit will be rewrapped before it is shown.
+
-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
------
-
-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>
-------------
+
+MAPPING AUTHORS
+---------------
+
+The `.mailmap` feature is used to coalesce together commits by the same
+person in the shortlog, where their name and/or email address was
+spelled differently.
+
+include::mailmap.txt[]
+
Author
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