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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Jacob Stopak <jacob@initialcommit.io>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, martin.agren@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2] shortlog: add group-by options for year and month
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 15:06:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqpmflsq2p.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yy4sIAHdvp6yRql+@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Fri, 23 Sep 2022 17:58:56 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> 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.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-23 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-22  6:18 [RFC PATCH] shortlog: add group-by options for year and month Jacob Stopak
2022-09-22 15:46 ` Martin Ågren
2022-09-22 23:25 ` [RFC PATCH v2] " Jacob Stopak
2022-09-23 16:17   ` Junio C Hamano
2022-09-23 21:19     ` Jacob Stopak
2022-09-23 21:58     ` Jeff King
2022-09-23 22:06       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2022-09-24  4:38       ` Jacob Stopak
2022-10-05 22:14         ` Jeff King
2022-10-05 21:43       ` Taylor Blau
2022-10-05 22:26         ` Jeff King
2022-10-07  0:48           ` Jacob Stopak
2022-10-07 21:59             ` Taylor Blau
2022-10-11  0:59             ` Jeff King
2022-10-07 22:24           ` Taylor Blau
2022-10-11  1:00             ` Jeff King

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