Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 02:37:20AM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> 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). I agree that I do not mind seeing those who haven't really touched the inner core of the system to try this change, so marking this discussion with #leftoverbits may be a good idea, but I have this gut feeling that "a little more involved" might be a bit of an understatement ;-) But still I think it is a very good suggestion to allow log-tree to filter things more so that "shortlog $args" can become a more faithful imitation of "log $args | shortlog". Thanks.
