Re: merge noise in git-shortlog output

"Luck, Tony" [off-list ref] writes:

This is valid (I really did make all those commits, they happen every
time I merge the "linus" branch into my release branch, which I like to
do quite often so I'm working near the bleeding edge), but it doesn't
seem all that useful in the "short" log output[1]

Are there interesting merges and uninteresting automerges?  Are
all merges more or less uninteresting?  If merges are not
interesting:

    $ git log --no-merges --pretty=short $rev $argu $ments | git shortlog