I guess I should have searched the list _before_ creating these patches
since I just now stumbled upon some of the questions about how this
should be done for example:
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2008/3/1/1035344
From my testing this seems to work fine, but I may have missed a use
case. I actually created these patches because I was annoyed that:
git shortlog --author=bohrer -s HEAD
didn't work, and this also fixes that issue.
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Shawn