On Fri, Oct 07, 2022 at 06:24:36PM -0400, Taylor Blau wrote: > > So here you're allowing multiple pretty options. But really, once we > > allow the user an arbitrary format, is there any reason for them to do: > > > > git shortlog --group=%an --group=%ad > > > > versus just: > > > > git shortlog --group='%an %ad' > > > > ? > > I think that if you want to unify `--group=author` into the new format > group implementation, you would have to allow multiple `--group` > options, but each such option would generate its own shortlog identity > instead of getting concatenated together. Exactly, and I think we have to do that anyway to match the existing multiple-option behavior. -Peff