On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 02:37:20AM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > That said, I don't think we can go wrong by making shortlog's traversal > > more like log's. Any changes we make to --follow will be aimed at and > > tested with git-log, so the more code they share the more likely it is > > that shortlog won't bitrot. > > Both true. > > Using log-tree traversal machinery instead of just get_revision() > would probably mean we would slow it down quite a bit unless we are > careful, but at the same time, things like "git shortlog -G<string>" > would suddenly start working, so this is not just helping the > "--follow" hack. I didn't notice that, but I'm not surprised that there are more options that shortlog doesn't quite work with. I don't plan on working on this myself any time soon, so maybe it's a good #leftoverbits candidate (though it's perhaps a little more involved than some). -Peff
