Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > If you give up the regex thing, then that naturally falls out as > (imagining we learn about authordate as a placeholder): > > git shortlog --group='%(authordate:format=%Y-%n) %an' > > without having to implement multiple groupings as a specific feature > (which is both more code, but also has user-facing confusion about when > --group overrides versus appends). That also skips the question of which > --group-by-regex applies to which --group-by-value. > > I do agree the regex thing is more flexible, but if we can't come up > with a case more compelling than subsystem matching, I'd just as soon > add %(subject:subsystem) or similar. :) ;-) I like that as a general direction.
