shortlog: add grouping option

[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / git-shortlog.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt b/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt
index a72ea7f7bafaabbc4ffc36e3fb89f1809917e94e..6496d313c10d6a05bb698ee9bc0ed4752b2ebee4 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt
@@ -47,9 +47,16 @@ OPTIONS
 
        Each pretty-printed commit will be rewrapped before it is shown.
 
+--group=<type>::
+       Group commits based on `<type>`. If no `--group` option is
+       specified, the default is `author`. `<type>` is one of:
++
+ - `author`, commits are grouped by author
+ - `committer`, commits are grouped by committer (the same as `-c`)
+
 -c::
 --committer::
-       Collect and show committer identities instead of authors.
+       This is an alias for `--group=committer`.
 
 -w[<width>[,<indent1>[,<indent2>]]]::
        Linewrap the output by wrapping each line at `width`.  The first