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git-shortlog:tldr:bc689
git-shortlog: View a summary of all the commits made, sorted by the number of commits made.
$ git shortlog -n
try on your machine
The command git shortlog -n
is used to display a summarized log of the commit history in a Git repository, sorted by the number of commits per author in descending order.
Here's a breakdown of the command:
git
: Executes the Git command-line tool.shortlog
: Instructs Git to generate a shortlog of the commit history.-n
: Specifies the sorting order by author name, listing the most active authors first. By default, Git uses the sorting order based on the number of commits.
When you execute this command, Git will retrieve the commit history from the current branch of your repository and summarize it, providing the author names and the number of commits made by each author.
This explanation was created by an AI. In most cases those are correct. But please always be careful and
never run a command you are not sure if it is safe.