[puzzled and solved] "shortlog" not quite understanding all "log" options

This gives the list of all recent commits but not the ones that are
only reachable from the notes hierarchy:

$ git log --exclude=refs/notes/\* --all --no-merges --since=18.hours |
  git shortlog

and we are supposed to be able to write the same with shortlog
itself, i.e.

$ git shortlog --exclude=refs/notes/\* --all --no-merges --since=18.hours

but this does not understand the ref exclusion command-line option.

A funny and puzzling thing is that this is understood:

$ git shortlog --all --no-merges --since=18.hours

What is strange is that --all, --no-merges, etc. and the ref
exclusion option all are handled in revision.c and only one of them
is being rejected.

.... Aaaand, it turns out that the answer is in the big comment at
the beginning of handle_revision_pseudo_opt().

-- >8 --
Subject: shortlog: allow --exclude=<glob> to be passed

e7b432c5 (revision: introduce --exclude=<glob> to tame wildcards,
2013-08-30) taught a new option to the command-line parser of "log"
and friends, but did not wire it fully so that it can also be used
by "shortlog".

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
---
 revision.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c
index 71e2337..3818b46 100644
--- a/revision.c
+++ b/revision.c

@@ -1633,6 +1633,7 @@ static int handle_revision_opt(struct rev_info *revs, int argc, const char **arg
 	    !strcmp(arg, "--reflog") || !strcmp(arg, "--not") ||
 	    !strcmp(arg, "--no-walk") || !strcmp(arg, "--do-walk") ||
 	    !strcmp(arg, "--bisect") || starts_with(arg, "--glob=") ||
+	    starts_with(arg, "--exclude=") ||
 	    starts_with(arg, "--branches=") || starts_with(arg, "--tags=") ||
 	    starts_with(arg, "--remotes=") || starts_with(arg, "--no-walk="))
 	{