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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] shortlog: refactor committer/author grouping
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 04:03:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200927080345.GB1286220@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cTfYmNAP_65RDa_fZOyuQEH65HuLs-UYSPT0yJ=s6BftA@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 04:05:04PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote:

> > +--group=<type>::
> > +       By default, `shortlog` collects and collates author identities;
> > +       using `--group` will collect other fields.
> > +       `<type>` is one of:
> > ++
> > + - `author`, commits are grouped by author (this is the default)
> > + - `committer`, commits are grouped by committer (the same as `-c`)
> 
> I had trouble interpreting "(this is the default)". It made me think
> that <type> is optional:
> 
>     --group[=<type>]
> 
> but that isn't the case at all. Instead, it means that if --group
> isn't specified, then grouping is done by `author` by default.

Right.

> It also
> repeats what the general description of --group already says with
> regard to the default, thus it is redundant to say it again when
> describing the `author` type. Therefore, perhaps drop "(this is the
> default)" altogether?

OK. I was worried somebody wouldn't quite pick up on the default. We
could spell it out as:

  - `author`, commits are grouped by author (this is the default if no
    --group is given)

but that's pretty lengthy. We could also reword the whole thing as:

  --group=<type>::
          Collect and collate values of type `<type>`; if no `--group`
	  option is given, the default is `author`:
   - `author`, commits are grouped by author
   - `committer`, commits are grouped by committer (the same as `-c`)

I'm not sure if that's clearer or not. The first sentence seems a bit
opaque, but I'm not sure how to improve it.

For now (and what plan to send out in v2), I'll take your suggestion to
just drop the phrase.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-27  8:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-25  7:01 [PATCH 0/8] parsing trailers with shortlog Jeff King
2020-09-25  7:01 ` [PATCH 1/8] shortlog: change "author" variables to "ident" Jeff King
2020-09-25  7:02 ` [PATCH 2/8] shortlog: refactor committer/author grouping Jeff King
2020-09-25 20:05   ` Eric Sunshine
2020-09-27  8:03     ` Jeff King [this message]
2020-09-27  8:08       ` Jeff King
2020-09-27  8:23         ` Eric Sunshine
2020-09-26 12:31   ` Martin Ågren
2020-09-27  7:59     ` Jeff King
2020-09-25  7:02 ` [PATCH 3/8] trailer: add interface for iterating over commit trailers Jeff King
2020-09-26 12:39   ` Martin Ågren
2020-09-27  8:20     ` Jeff King
2020-09-25  7:03 ` [PATCH 4/8] shortlog: match commit trailers with --group Jeff King
2020-09-25  7:05 ` [PATCH 5/8] shortlog: de-duplicate trailer values Jeff King
2020-09-25  7:05 ` [PATCH 6/8] shortlog: rename parse_stdin_ident() Jeff King
2020-09-25  7:05 ` [PATCH 7/8] shortlog: parse trailer idents Jeff King
2020-09-25  7:05 ` [PATCH 8/8] shortlog: allow multiple groups to be specified Jeff King
2020-09-25 20:23   ` Eric Sunshine
2020-09-27  8:06     ` Jeff King
2020-09-26 12:48   ` Martin Ågren
2020-09-27  8:25     ` Jeff King
2020-09-25 14:27 ` [PATCH 0/8] parsing trailers with shortlog Derrick Stolee
2020-09-25 16:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-27  8:39 ` [PATCH v2 " Jeff King
2020-09-27  8:39   ` [PATCH v2 1/8] shortlog: change "author" variables to "ident" Jeff King
2020-09-27 19:18     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-27  8:39   ` [PATCH v2 2/8] shortlog: add grouping option Jeff King
2020-09-27  8:40   ` [PATCH v2 3/8] trailer: add interface for iterating over commit trailers Jeff King
2020-09-27  8:40   ` [PATCH v2 4/8] shortlog: match commit trailers with --group Jeff King
2020-09-27 19:51     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-28  3:17       ` Jeff King
2020-09-28 17:01         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-27  8:40   ` [PATCH v2 5/8] shortlog: de-duplicate trailer values Jeff King
2020-09-27 20:23     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-28  3:19       ` Jeff King
2020-09-27  8:40   ` [PATCH v2 6/8] shortlog: rename parse_stdin_ident() Jeff King
2020-09-27  8:40   ` [PATCH v2 7/8] shortlog: parse trailer idents Jeff King
2020-09-27 20:49     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-27  8:40   ` [PATCH v2 8/8] shortlog: allow multiple groups to be specified Jeff King
2020-09-27 21:18     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-28  3:25       ` Jeff King
2020-12-28 11:29     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-04  6:44       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-27 14:38   ` [PATCH v2 0/8] parsing trailers with shortlog Martin Ågren

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