Ever wondered how many commits you’ve contributed to a project? Or perhaps, which coworker has really done nothing (or maybe they have huge changes and fewer commits!) Well, wonder no more, for git shortlog is a nice way to find out.

I’m running this on my clone of jekyll, which is how this blog is generated:

$ git shortlog -s -n
  135  Tom Preston-Werner
  15  Jack Danger Canty
  10  Chris Van Pelt
  7  Mark Reid
  6  remi
  3  Mikael Lind
  3  Toby DiPasquale
  2  Aristotle Pagaltzis
  2  Basil Shkara
  2  John Reilly
  2  PJ Hyett
  1  Marc Chung
  1  Nick Gerakines
  1  Nick Quaranto
  1  Tom Kirchner
The -s option squashes all of the commit messages into the number of commits, and the -n option sorts the list by number of commits.

This command could also be useful for changelogs, since you could easily dump all the changes each person has done. There’s a few other neat options: -e will append emails, and you can control columns widths with -w. Check out the manpage for more information.