Git Version Control Cookbook - Second Edition

How to do it...

The shortlog Git command is very simple and does not have a lot of options or flags to use with it. It can show the log but in a boiled-down version, and then it can summarize it for us as follows:

1. Start by showing the last five commits with shortlog. We can use -5 to limit the amount of output:

$ git shortlog -5 
Jonathan Nieder (1): 
  Update commons-compress to 1.6 
 
Matthias Sohn (2): 
  Update com.jcraft.jsch to 0.1.50 in Kepler target platform 
  Update target platforms to use latest orbit build 
 
SATO taichi (1): 
  Add git checkout --orphan implementation 
 
Stefan Lay (1): 
  Fix fast forward rebase with rebase.autostash=true 

2. As you can see, the output is very different from the git log output. You can try it for yourself with ...