This doesn't convey much information in the shortlog context. And the perl version did strip it as well. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/builtin-shortlog.c b/builtin-shortlog.c index 7a2ddfe..6c4606b 100644 --- a/builtin-shortlog.c +++ b/builtin-shortlog.c @@ -146,6 +146,11 @@ static void insert_author_oneline(struct path_list *list, while (onelinelen > 0 && isspace(oneline[onelinelen - 1])) onelinelen--; + if (onelinelen > 8 && !strncasecmp(oneline, "[PATCH] ", 8)) { + oneline += 8; + onelinelen -= 8; + } + buffer = xmalloc(onelinelen + 1); memcpy(buffer, oneline, onelinelen); buffer[onelinelen] = '\0'; - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html