On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 01:29:47PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > In some situations you may want to group the commits not by author,
> > but by committer instead.
> >
> > For example, when I just wanted to look up what I'm still missing from
> > linux-next in the current merge window [..]
>
> It's another merge window later for the kernel, and I just re-applied
> this patch to my git tree because I still want to know teh committer
> information rather than the authorship information, and it still seems
> to be the simplest way to do that.
>
> Jeff had apparently done something similar as part of a bigger
> patch-series, but I don't see that either. I really don't care very
> much how this is done, but I do find this very useful, I do things
> like
Sorry if I de-railed the earlier conversation. The shortlog
group-by-trailer work didn't seem useful enough for me to make it a
priority.
I'm OK with the approach your patch takes, but I think there were some
unresolved issues:
- are we OK taking the short "-c" for this, or do we want
"--group-by=committer" or something like it?
- no tests; you can steal the general form from my [1]
- no documentation (can also be stolen from [1], though the syntax is
quite different)
-Peff
[1] http://public-inbox.org/git/20151229073515.GK8842@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/