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NAME

       git-shortlog - Summarize 'git log' output


SYNOPSIS

       git shortlog [<options>] [<revision-range>] [[--] <path>...]
       git log --pretty=short | git shortlog [<options>]



DESCRIPTION

       Summarizes git log output in a format suitable for inclusion in release
       announcements. Each commit will be grouped by author and title.

       Additionally, "[PATCH]" will be stripped from the commit description.

       If no revisions are passed on the command line and either standard
       input is not a terminal or there is no current branch, git shortlog
       will output a summary of the log read from standard input, without
       reference to the current repository.


OPTIONS

       -n, --numbered
           Sort output according to the number of commits per author instead
           of author alphabetic order.

       -s, --summary
           Suppress commit description and provide a commit count summary
           only.

       -e, --email
           Show the email address of each author.

       --format[=<format>]
           Instead of the commit subject, use some other information to
           describe each commit.  <format> can be any string accepted by the
           --format option of git log, such as * [%h] %s. (See the "PRETTY
           FORMATS" section of git-log(1).)

               Each pretty-printed commit will be rewrapped before it is shown.

       --date=<format>
           Show dates formatted according to the given date string. (See the
           --date option in the "Commit Formatting" section of git-log(1)).
           Useful with --group=format:<format>.

       --group=<type>
           Group commits based on <type>. If no --group option is specified,
           the default is author.  <type> is one of:

           o   author, commits are grouped by author

           o   committer, commits are grouped by committer (the same as -c)

           o   trailer:<field>, the <field> is interpreted as a
               case-insensitive commit message trailer (see git-interpret-
               trailers(1)). For example, if your project uses Reviewed-by
               trailers, you might want to see who has been reviewing with git
               shortlog -ns --group=trailer:reviewed-by.

           o   format:<format>, any string accepted by the --format option of
               git log. (See the "PRETTY FORMATS" section of git-log(1).)

               Note that commits that do not include the trailer will not be
               counted. Likewise, commits with multiple trailers (e.g.,
               multiple signoffs) may be counted more than once (but only once
               per unique trailer value in that commit).

               Shortlog will attempt to parse each trailer value as a name
               <email> identity. If successful, the mailmap is applied and the
               email is omitted unless the --email option is specified. If the
               value cannot be parsed as an identity, it will be taken
               literally and completely.

           If --group is specified multiple times, commits are counted under
           each value (but again, only once per unique value in that commit).
           For example, git shortlog --group=author
           --group=trailer:co-authored-by counts both authors and co-authors.

       -c, --committer
           This is an alias for --group=committer.

       -w[<width>[,<indent1>[,<indent2>]]]
           Linewrap the output by wrapping each line at width. The first line
           of each entry is indented by indent1 spaces, and the second and
           subsequent lines are indented by indent2 spaces.  width, indent1,
           and indent2 default to 76, 6 and 9 respectively.

           If width is 0 (zero) then indent the lines of the output without
           wrapping them.

       <revision-range>
           Show only commits in the specified revision range. When no
           <revision-range> is specified, it defaults to HEAD (i.e. the whole
           history leading to the current commit).  origin..HEAD specifies all
           the commits reachable from the current commit (i.e.  HEAD), but not
           from origin. For a complete list of ways to spell <revision-range>,
           see the "Specifying Ranges" section of gitrevisions(7).

       [--] <path>...
           Consider only commits that are enough to explain how the files that
           match the specified paths came to be.

           Paths may need to be prefixed with -- to separate them from options
           or the revision range, when confusion arises.

   Commit Limiting
       Besides specifying a range of commits that should be listed using the
       special notations explained in the description, additional commit
       limiting may be applied.

       Using more options generally further limits the output (e.g.
       --since=<date1> limits to commits newer than <date1>, and using it with
       --grep=<pattern> further limits to commits whose log message has a line
       that matches <pattern>), unless otherwise noted.

       Note that these are applied before commit ordering and formatting
       options, such as --reverse.

       -<number>, -n <number>, --max-count=<number>
           Limit the number of commits to output.

       --skip=<number>
           Skip number commits before starting to show the commit output.

       --since=<date>, --after=<date>
           Show commits more recent than a specific date.

       --since-as-filter=<date>
           Show all commits more recent than a specific date. This visits all
           commits in the range, rather than stopping at the first commit
           which is older than a specific date.

       --until=<date>, --before=<date>
           Show commits older than a specific date.

       --author=<pattern>, --committer=<pattern>
           Limit the commits output to ones with author/committer header lines
           that match the specified pattern (regular expression). With more
           than one --author=<pattern>, commits whose author matches any of
           the given patterns are chosen (similarly for multiple
           --committer=<pattern>).

       --grep-reflog=<pattern>
           Limit the commits output to ones with reflog entries that match the
           specified pattern (regular expression). With more than one
           --grep-reflog, commits whose reflog message matches any of the
           given patterns are chosen. It is an error to use this option unless
           --walk-reflogs is in use.

       --grep=<pattern>
           Limit the commits output to ones with a log message that matches
           the specified pattern (regular expression). With more than one
           --grep=<pattern>, commits whose message matches any of the given
           patterns are chosen (but see --all-match).

           When --notes is in effect, the message from the notes is matched as
           if it were part of the log message.

       --all-match
           Limit the commits output to ones that match all given --grep,
           instead of ones that match at least one.

       --invert-grep
           Limit the commits output to ones with a log message that do not
           match the pattern specified with --grep=<pattern>.

       -i, --regexp-ignore-case
           Match the regular expression limiting patterns without regard to
           letter case.

       --basic-regexp
           Consider the limiting patterns to be basic regular expressions;
           this is the default.

       -E, --extended-regexp
           Consider the limiting patterns to be extended regular expressions
           instead of the default basic regular expressions.

       -F, --fixed-strings
           Consider the limiting patterns to be fixed strings (don't interpret
           pattern as a regular expression).

       -P, --perl-regexp
           Consider the limiting patterns to be Perl-compatible regular
           expressions.

           Support for these types of regular expressions is an optional
           compile-time dependency. If Git wasn't compiled with support for
           them providing this option will cause it to die.

       --remove-empty
           Stop when a given path disappears from the tree.

       --merges
           Print only merge commits. This is exactly the same as
           --min-parents=2.

       --no-merges
           Do not print commits with more than one parent. This is exactly the
           same as --max-parents=1.

       --min-parents=<number>, --max-parents=<number>, --no-min-parents,
       --no-max-parents
           Show only commits which have at least (or at most) that many parent
           commits. In particular, --max-parents=1 is the same as --no-merges,
           --min-parents=2 is the same as --merges.  --max-parents=0 gives all
           root commits and --min-parents=3 all octopus merges.

           --no-min-parents and --no-max-parents reset these limits (to no
           limit) again. Equivalent forms are --min-parents=0 (any commit has
           0 or more parents) and --max-parents=-1 (negative numbers denote no
           upper limit).

       --first-parent
           When finding commits to include, follow only the first parent
           commit upon seeing a merge commit. This option can give a better
           overview when viewing the evolution of a particular topic branch,
           because merges into a topic branch tend to be only about adjusting
           to updated upstream from time to time, and this option allows you
           to ignore the individual commits brought in to your history by such
           a merge.

       --exclude-first-parent-only
           When finding commits to exclude (with a ^), follow only the first
           parent commit upon seeing a merge commit. This can be used to find
           the set of changes in a topic branch from the point where it
           diverged from the remote branch, given that arbitrary merges can be
           valid topic branch changes.

       --not
           Reverses the meaning of the ^ prefix (or lack thereof) for all
           following revision specifiers, up to the next --not. When used on
           the command line before --stdin, the revisions passed through stdin
           will not be affected by it. Conversely, when passed via standard
           input, the revisions passed on the command line will not be
           affected by it.

       --all
           Pretend as if all the refs in refs/, along with HEAD, are listed on
           the command line as <commit>.

       --branches[=<pattern>]
           Pretend as if all the refs in refs/heads are listed on the command
           line as <commit>. If <pattern> is given, limit branches to ones
           matching given shell glob. If pattern lacks ?, *, or [, /* at the
           end is implied.

       --tags[=<pattern>]
           Pretend as if all the refs in refs/tags are listed on the command
           line as <commit>. If <pattern> is given, limit tags to ones
           matching given shell glob. If pattern lacks ?, *, or [, /* at the
           end is implied.

       --remotes[=<pattern>]
           Pretend as if all the refs in refs/remotes are listed on the
           command line as <commit>. If <pattern> is given, limit
           remote-tracking branches to ones matching given shell glob. If
           pattern lacks ?, *, or [, /* at the end is implied.

       --glob=<glob-pattern>
           Pretend as if all the refs matching shell glob <glob-pattern> are
           listed on the command line as <commit>. Leading refs/, is
           automatically prepended if missing. If pattern lacks ?, *, or [, /*
           at the end is implied.

       --exclude=<glob-pattern>
           Do not include refs matching <glob-pattern> that the next --all,
           --branches, --tags, --remotes, or --glob would otherwise consider.
           Repetitions of this option accumulate exclusion patterns up to the
           next --all, --branches, --tags, --remotes, or --glob option (other
           options or arguments do not clear accumulated patterns).

           The patterns given should not begin with refs/heads, refs/tags, or
           refs/remotes when applied to --branches, --tags, or --remotes,
           respectively, and they must begin with refs/ when applied to --glob
           or --all. If a trailing /* is intended, it must be given
           explicitly.

       --exclude-hidden=[fetch|receive|uploadpack]
           Do not include refs that would be hidden by git-fetch,
           git-receive-pack or git-upload-pack by consulting the appropriate
           fetch.hideRefs, receive.hideRefs or uploadpack.hideRefs
           configuration along with transfer.hideRefs (see git-config(1)).
           This option affects the next pseudo-ref option --all or --glob and
           is cleared after processing them.

       --reflog
           Pretend as if all objects mentioned by reflogs are listed on the
           command line as <commit>.

       --alternate-refs
           Pretend as if all objects mentioned as ref tips of alternate
           repositories were listed on the command line. An alternate
           repository is any repository whose object directory is specified in
           objects/info/alternates. The set of included objects may be
           modified by core.alternateRefsCommand, etc. See git-config(1).

       --single-worktree
           By default, all working trees will be examined by the following
           options when there are more than one (see git-worktree(1)): --all,
           --reflog and --indexed-objects. This option forces them to examine
           the current working tree only.

       --ignore-missing
           Upon seeing an invalid object name in the input, pretend as if the
           bad input was not given.

       --bisect
           Pretend as if the bad bisection ref refs/bisect/bad was listed and
           as if it was followed by --not and the good bisection refs
           refs/bisect/good-* on the command line.

       --stdin
           In addition to getting arguments from the command line, read them
           from standard input as well. This accepts commits and
           pseudo-options like --all and --glob=. When a -- separator is seen,
           the following input is treated as paths and used to limit the
           result. Flags like --not which are read via standard input are only
           respected for arguments passed in the same way and will not
           influence any subsequent command line arguments.

       --cherry-mark
           Like --cherry-pick (see below) but mark equivalent commits with =
           rather than omitting them, and inequivalent ones with +.

       --cherry-pick
           Omit any commit that introduces the same change as another commit
           on the "other side" when the set of commits are limited with
           symmetric difference.

           For example, if you have two branches, A and B, a usual way to list
           all commits on only one side of them is with --left-right (see the
           example below in the description of the --left-right option).
           However, it shows the commits that were cherry-picked from the
           other branch (for example, "3rd on b" may be cherry-picked from
           branch A). With this option, such pairs of commits are excluded
           from the output.

       --left-only, --right-only
           List only commits on the respective side of a symmetric difference,
           i.e. only those which would be marked < resp.  > by --left-right.

           For example, --cherry-pick --right-only A...B omits those commits
           from B which are in A or are patch-equivalent to a commit in A. In
           other words, this lists the + commits from git cherry A B. More
           precisely, --cherry-pick --right-only --no-merges gives the exact
           list.

       --cherry
           A synonym for --right-only --cherry-mark --no-merges; useful to
           limit the output to the commits on our side and mark those that
           have been applied to the other side of a forked history with git
           log --cherry upstream...mybranch, similar to git cherry upstream
           mybranch.

       -g, --walk-reflogs
           Instead of walking the commit ancestry chain, walk reflog entries
           from the most recent one to older ones. When this option is used
           you cannot specify commits to exclude (that is, ^commit,
           commit1..commit2, and commit1...commit2 notations cannot be used).

           With --pretty format other than oneline and reference (for obvious
           reasons), this causes the output to have two extra lines of
           information taken from the reflog. The reflog designator in the
           output may be shown as ref@{<Nth>} (where <Nth> is the
           reverse-chronological index in the reflog) or as ref@{<timestamp>}
           (with the <timestamp> for that entry), depending on a few rules:

            1. If the starting point is specified as ref@{<Nth>}, show the
               index format.

            2. If the starting point was specified as ref@{now}, show the
               timestamp format.

            3. If neither was used, but --date was given on the command line,
               show the timestamp in the format requested by --date.

            4. Otherwise, show the index format.

           Under --pretty=oneline, the commit message is prefixed with this
           information on the same line. This option cannot be combined with
           --reverse. See also git-reflog(1).

           Under --pretty=reference, this information will not be shown at
           all.

       --merge
           Show commits touching conflicted paths in the range HEAD...<other>,
           where <other> is the first existing pseudoref in MERGE_HEAD,
           CHERRY_PICK_HEAD, REVERT_HEAD or REBASE_HEAD. Only works when the
           index has unmerged entries. This option can be used to show
           relevant commits when resolving conflicts from a 3-way merge.

       --boundary
           Output excluded boundary commits. Boundary commits are prefixed
           with -.

   History Simplification
       Sometimes you are only interested in parts of the history, for example
       the commits modifying a particular <path>. But there are two parts of
       History Simplification, one part is selecting the commits and the other
       is how to do it, as there are various strategies to simplify the
       history.

       The following options select the commits to be shown:

       <paths>
           Commits modifying the given <paths> are selected.

       --simplify-by-decoration
           Commits that are referred by some branch or tag are selected.

       Note that extra commits can be shown to give a meaningful history.

       The following options affect the way the simplification is performed:

       Default mode
           Simplifies the history to the simplest history explaining the final
           state of the tree. Simplest because it prunes some side branches if
           the end result is the same (i.e. merging branches with the same
           content)

       --show-pulls
           Include all commits from the default mode, but also any merge
           commits that are not TREESAME to the first parent but are TREESAME
           to a later parent. This mode is helpful for showing the merge
           commits that "first introduced" a change to a branch.

       --full-history
           Same as the default mode, but does not prune some history.

       --dense
           Only the selected commits are shown, plus some to have a meaningful
           history.

       --sparse
           All commits in the simplified history are shown.

       --simplify-merges
           Additional option to --full-history to remove some needless merges
           from the resulting history, as there are no selected commits
           contributing to this merge.

       --ancestry-path[=<commit>]
           When given a range of commits to display (e.g.  commit1..commit2 or
           commit2 ^commit1), only display commits in that range that are
           ancestors of <commit>, descendants of <commit>, or <commit> itself.
           If no commit is specified, use commit1 (the excluded part of the
           range) as <commit>. Can be passed multiple times; if so, a commit
           is included if it is any of the commits given or if it is an
           ancestor or descendant of one of them.

       A more detailed explanation follows.

       Suppose you specified foo as the <paths>. We shall call commits that
       modify foo !TREESAME, and the rest TREESAME. (In a diff filtered for
       foo, they look different and equal, respectively.)

       In the following, we will always refer to the same example history to
       illustrate the differences between simplification settings. We assume
       that you are filtering for a file foo in this commit graph:

                     .-A---M---N---O---P---Q
                    /     /   /   /   /   /
                   I     B   C   D   E   Y
                    \   /   /   /   /   /
                     `-------------'   X


       The horizontal line of history A---Q is taken to be the first parent of
       each merge. The commits are:

       o   I is the initial commit, in which foo exists with contents "asdf",
           and a file quux exists with contents "quux". Initial commits are
           compared to an empty tree, so I is !TREESAME.

       o   In A, foo contains just "foo".

       o   B contains the same change as A. Its merge M is trivial and hence
           TREESAME to all parents.

       o   C does not change foo, but its merge N changes it to "foobar", so
           it is not TREESAME to any parent.

       o   D sets foo to "baz". Its merge O combines the strings from N and D
           to "foobarbaz"; i.e., it is not TREESAME to any parent.

       o   E changes quux to "xyzzy", and its merge P combines the strings to
           "quux xyzzy".  P is TREESAME to O, but not to E.

       o   X is an independent root commit that added a new file side, and Y
           modified it.  Y is TREESAME to X. Its merge Q added side to P, and
           Q is TREESAME to P, but not to Y.

       rev-list walks backwards through history, including or excluding
       commits based on whether --full-history and/or parent rewriting (via
       --parents or --children) are used. The following settings are
       available.

       Default mode
           Commits are included if they are not TREESAME to any parent (though
           this can be changed, see --sparse below). If the commit was a
           merge, and it was TREESAME to one parent, follow only that parent.
           (Even if there are several TREESAME parents, follow only one of
           them.) Otherwise, follow all parents.

           This results in:

                         .-A---N---O
                        /     /   /
                       I---------D

           Note how the rule to only follow the TREESAME parent, if one is
           available, removed B from consideration entirely.  C was considered
           via N, but is TREESAME. Root commits are compared to an empty tree,
           so I is !TREESAME.

           Parent/child relations are only visible with --parents, but that
           does not affect the commits selected in default mode, so we have
           shown the parent lines.

       --full-history without parent rewriting
           This mode differs from the default in one point: always follow all
           parents of a merge, even if it is TREESAME to one of them. Even if
           more than one side of the merge has commits that are included, this
           does not imply that the merge itself is! In the example, we get

                       I  A  B  N  D  O  P  Q

           M was excluded because it is TREESAME to both parents.  E, C and B
           were all walked, but only B was !TREESAME, so the others do not
           appear.

           Note that without parent rewriting, it is not really possible to
           talk about the parent/child relationships between the commits, so
           we show them disconnected.

       --full-history with parent rewriting
           Ordinary commits are only included if they are !TREESAME (though
           this can be changed, see --sparse below).

           Merges are always included. However, their parent list is
           rewritten: Along each parent, prune away commits that are not
           included themselves. This results in

                         .-A---M---N---O---P---Q
                        /     /   /   /   /
                       I     B   /   D   /
                        \   /   /   /   /
                         `-------------'

           Compare to --full-history without rewriting above. Note that E was
           pruned away because it is TREESAME, but the parent list of P was
           rewritten to contain E's parent I. The same happened for C and N,
           and X, Y and Q.

       In addition to the above settings, you can change whether TREESAME
       affects inclusion:

       --dense
           Commits that are walked are included if they are not TREESAME to
           any parent.

       --sparse
           All commits that are walked are included.

           Note that without --full-history, this still simplifies merges: if
           one of the parents is TREESAME, we follow only that one, so the
           other sides of the merge are never walked.

       --simplify-merges
           First, build a history graph in the same way that --full-history
           with parent rewriting does (see above).

           Then simplify each commit C to its replacement C' in the final
           history according to the following rules:

           o   Set C' to C.

           o   Replace each parent P of C' with its simplification P'. In the
               process, drop parents that are ancestors of other parents or
               that are root commits TREESAME to an empty tree, and remove
               duplicates, but take care to never drop all parents that we are
               TREESAME to.

           o   If after this parent rewriting, C' is a root or merge commit
               (has zero or >1 parents), a boundary commit, or !TREESAME, it
               remains. Otherwise, it is replaced with its only parent.

           The effect of this is best shown by way of comparing to
           --full-history with parent rewriting. The example turns into:

                         .-A---M---N---O
                        /     /       /
                       I     B       D
                        \   /       /
                         `---------'

           Note the major differences in N, P, and Q over --full-history:

           o   N's parent list had I removed, because it is an ancestor of the
               other parent M. Still, N remained because it is !TREESAME.

           o   P's parent list similarly had I removed.  P was then removed
               completely, because it had one parent and is TREESAME.

           o   Q's parent list had Y simplified to X.  X was then removed,
               because it was a TREESAME root.  Q was then removed completely,
               because it had one parent and is TREESAME.

       There is another simplification mode available:

       --ancestry-path[=<commit>]
           Limit the displayed commits to those which are an ancestor of
           <commit>, or which are a descendant of <commit>, or are <commit>
           itself.

           As an example use case, consider the following commit history:

                           D---E-------F
                          /     \       \
                         B---C---G---H---I---J
                        /                     \
                       A-------K---------------L--M

           A regular D..M computes the set of commits that are ancestors of M,
           but excludes the ones that are ancestors of D. This is useful to
           see what happened to the history leading to M since D, in the sense
           that "what does M have that did not exist in D". The result in this
           example would be all the commits, except A and B (and D itself, of
           course).

           When we want to find out what commits in M are contaminated with
           the bug introduced by D and need fixing, however, we might want to
           view only the subset of D..M that are actually descendants of D,
           i.e. excluding C and K. This is exactly what the --ancestry-path
           option does. Applied to the D..M range, it results in:

                               E-------F
                                \       \
                                 G---H---I---J
                                              \
                                               L--M

           We can also use --ancestry-path=D instead of --ancestry-path which
           means the same thing when applied to the D..M range but is just
           more explicit.

           If we instead are interested in a given topic within this range,
           and all commits affected by that topic, we may only want to view
           the subset of D..M which contain that topic in their ancestry path.
           So, using --ancestry-path=H D..M for example would result in:

                               E
                                \
                                 G---H---I---J
                                              \
                                               L--M

           Whereas --ancestry-path=K D..M would result in

                               K---------------L--M


       Before discussing another option, --show-pulls, we need to create a new
       example history.

       A common problem users face when looking at simplified history is that
       a commit they know changed a file somehow does not appear in the file's
       simplified history. Let's demonstrate a new example and show how
       options such as --full-history and --simplify-merges works in that
       case:

                     .-A---M-----C--N---O---P
                    /     / \  \  \/   /   /
                   I     B   \  R-'`-Z'   /
                    \   /     \/         /
                     \ /      /\        /
                      `---X--'  `---Y--'


       For this example, suppose I created file.txt which was modified by A,
       B, and X in different ways. The single-parent commits C, Z, and Y do
       not change file.txt. The merge commit M was created by resolving the
       merge conflict to include both changes from A and B and hence is not
       TREESAME to either. The merge commit R, however, was created by
       ignoring the contents of file.txt at M and taking only the contents of
       file.txt at X. Hence, R is TREESAME to X but not M. Finally, the
       natural merge resolution to create N is to take the contents of
       file.txt at R, so N is TREESAME to R but not C. The merge commits O and
       P are TREESAME to their first parents, but not to their second parents,
       Z and Y respectively.

       When using the default mode, N and R both have a TREESAME parent, so
       those edges are walked and the others are ignored. The resulting
       history graph is:

                   I---X


       When using --full-history, Git walks every edge. This will discover the
       commits A and B and the merge M, but also will reveal the merge commits
       O and P. With parent rewriting, the resulting graph is:

                     .-A---M--------N---O---P
                    /     / \  \  \/   /   /
                   I     B   \  R-'`--'   /
                    \   /     \/         /
                     \ /      /\        /
                      `---X--'  `------'


       Here, the merge commits O and P contribute extra noise, as they did not
       actually contribute a change to file.txt. They only merged a topic that
       was based on an older version of file.txt. This is a common issue in
       repositories using a workflow where many contributors work in parallel
       and merge their topic branches along a single trunk: many unrelated
       merges appear in the --full-history results.

       When using the --simplify-merges option, the commits O and P disappear
       from the results. This is because the rewritten second parents of O and
       P are reachable from their first parents. Those edges are removed and
       then the commits look like single-parent commits that are TREESAME to
       their parent. This also happens to the commit N, resulting in a history
       view as follows:

                     .-A---M--.
                    /     /    \
                   I     B      R
                    \   /      /
                     \ /      /
                      `---X--'


       In this view, we see all of the important single-parent changes from A,
       B, and X. We also see the carefully-resolved merge M and the
       not-so-carefully-resolved merge R. This is usually enough information
       to determine why the commits A and B "disappeared" from history in the
       default view. However, there are a few issues with this approach.

       The first issue is performance. Unlike any previous option, the
       --simplify-merges option requires walking the entire commit history
       before returning a single result. This can make the option difficult to
       use for very large repositories.

       The second issue is one of auditing. When many contributors are working
       on the same repository, it is important which merge commits introduced
       a change into an important branch. The problematic merge R above is not
       likely to be the merge commit that was used to merge into an important
       branch. Instead, the merge N was used to merge R and X into the
       important branch. This commit may have information about why the change
       X came to override the changes from A and B in its commit message.

       --show-pulls
           In addition to the commits shown in the default history, show each
           merge commit that is not TREESAME to its first parent but is
           TREESAME to a later parent.

           When a merge commit is included by --show-pulls, the merge is
           treated as if it "pulled" the change from another branch. When
           using --show-pulls on this example (and no other options) the
           resulting graph is:

                       I---X---R---N

           Here, the merge commits R and N are included because they pulled
           the commits X and R into the base branch, respectively. These
           merges are the reason the commits A and B do not appear in the
           default history.

           When --show-pulls is paired with --simplify-merges, the graph
           includes all of the necessary information:

                         .-A---M--.   N
                        /     /    \ /
                       I     B      R
                        \   /      /
                         \ /      /
                          `---X--'

           Notice that since M is reachable from R, the edge from N to M was
           simplified away. However, N still appears in the history as an
           important commit because it "pulled" the change R into the main
           branch.

       The --simplify-by-decoration option allows you to view only the big
       picture of the topology of the history, by omitting commits that are
       not referenced by tags. Commits are marked as !TREESAME (in other
       words, kept after history simplification rules described above) if (1)
       they are referenced by tags, or (2) they change the contents of the
       paths given on the command line. All other commits are marked as
       TREESAME (subject to be simplified away).


MAPPING AUTHORS

       See gitmailmap(5).

       Note that if git shortlog is run outside of a repository (to process
       log contents on standard input), it will look for a .mailmap file in
       the current directory.


GIT

       Part of the git(1) suite

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