Re: git-shortlog hangs on bare repo without --bare option

René Scharfe [off-list ref] writes:

Garry Dolley schrieb:

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I didn't see this happen with git 1.5.x, but if you do git-shortlog on a bare 
repo, without specifying --bare, the command will seemingly hang indefinitely.

FWIW, I tried git 1.5.0 and it hangs, too.  Which exact version did work
for you?  Could you, based on it, bisect the commit that introduced this
behaviour?

As a workaround, you can use "git log | git shortlog".

It is not a workaround.  Shortlog can work as a filter to "git log", but
if you give revs to work on, e.g. "git shortlog -s -n v1.5.6.5.." or "git
shortlog HEAD", it can generate the log and feed to itself.

Somehow it (perhaps incorrectly, I did not look at the command line input)
judging that your command line is telling it not to do the log generation
itself but instead you will feed the log from its standard input, which
happens to be your terminal.  So another workaround would be to type the
series of log messages ;-)