Somebody mentioned at the inclusion summit that it would be nice for
mentoring/pairing relationships if we could more easily give credit to
multiple authors of a commit. When people ask about adding multiple
"author" headers, we usually recommend that they use a "co-authored-by"
trailer. But you can't convince shortlog to count it for anything. :)
So this series adds support for counting trailers to shortlog. You can
do a number of fun things with it, like:
# credit reviewers
git shortlog -ns --group=trailer:reviewed-by
# credit authors and co-authors equally
git shortlog -ns --group=author \
--group=trailer:co-authored-by
# see who helps whom
git shortlog --format="...helped %an on %as" \
--group=trailer:helped-by
If some of this looks familiar, it's because I sent the early patches
years ago. But I won't even bother linking to it; I cleaned up quite a
few rough edges since then, so it's not really worth looking at.
[1/8]: shortlog: change "author" variables to "ident"
[2/8]: shortlog: refactor committer/author grouping
[3/8]: trailer: add interface for iterating over commit trailers
[4/8]: shortlog: match commit trailers with --group
[5/8]: shortlog: de-duplicate trailer values
[6/8]: shortlog: rename parse_stdin_ident()
[7/8]: shortlog: parse trailer idents
[8/8]: shortlog: allow multiple groups to be specified
Documentation/git-shortlog.txt | 29 +++++
builtin/log.c | 1 +
builtin/shortlog.c | 218 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
shortlog.h | 8 +-
t/t4201-shortlog.sh | 141 +++++++++++++++++++++
trailer.c | 36 ++++++
trailer.h | 44 ++++++-
7 files changed, 447 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
-Peff
