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Git: Version Control for Everyone

By : Ravishankar Somasundaram
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Git: Version Control for Everyone

By: Ravishankar Somasundaram

Overview of this book

<div> <div>Git – is free software which enables you to maintain different versions of single or multiple files present inside a directory(folder), and allows you to switch back and forth between them at any given point of time. It also allows multiple people to work on the same file collaboratively or in parallel, without being connected to a server or any other centralized system continuously.<br /><br />This book is a step by step, practical guide, helping you learn the routine of version controlling all your content, every day. <br /><br />If you are an average computer user who wants to be able to maintain multiple versions of files and folders, or to go back and forth in time with respect to the files content – look no further. The workflow explained in this book will benefit anyone, no matter what kind of text or documentation they work on.<br /><br />This book will also benefit developers, administrators, analysts, architects and anyone else who wishes to perform simultaneous, collaborative work, or work in parallel on the same set of files. Git's advanced features are there to make your life easier.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div> </div>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Git: Version Control for Everyone Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – parameterizing shortlog


Just add the parameter –n to your earlier command.

git shortlog –n

You should see an output as shown in the following screenshot:

What just happened?

By adding the –n (numbered) parameter, what you have is an output that is weighted based on the number of commits instead of alphabetical ordering.

Now that we have got the idea, let's quickly run through the remaining parameters which we can put to use. To get metadata such as the e-mail of the author appended to the existing output, we shall use the –e parameter.

git shortlog -e

You can expect an output as shown in the following screenshot:

Wondering how you can quickly get the number of stages/commits that the repository has gone through from different users? Allow me to introduce the -s parameter, which should give us the count history for each user.

git shortlog –s

To summarize the parameters with their functions, refer to the following tabulation:

Parameter

Action description

Short form...