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idanp
idanp

Reputation: 1075

git shortlog - print the body of commits

Is it possible to use git shortlog for showing the full commits bodies?

I want the output to be:

$ git shortlog 
John Doe (2):
      Commit title
        commit body
      Commit title
        commit body

No success for doing so using the --format flag.

--format=%B just just stays the same, and --format=%b gives only the first line of body.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 70

Answers (1)

torek
torek

Reputation: 488163

The short answer is no.

git shortlog's purpose in life is to summarize commits into one-line descriptions, which then get sorted by author. As such, it reads up to one line of whatever is going to become the one-line description ... and then throws away anything else, so only the one line matters. You can choose what goes into the one line, but it has to be one line, and all on one line.

The git shortlog program is not really all that complicated: given your desired output format, you could probably write yourself a perl or awk script to do it in a few minutes.

Upvotes: 3

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