Inspection & Debugging

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Git Blame
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Git Grep & Pickaxe
+180
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Git Shortlog
+150
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Git Bisect
+300
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Advanced log filters
+200
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Inspecting Commits with show
+160
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File History across Renames
+220
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Pickaxe in Detail
+230
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Diff Strategies
+170
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Range Diffs
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Group commits by author for instant contribution reports

Git Shortlog

Concept

git shortlog groups commits by author — instant contribution report.

git shortlog -sn — sorted count per author git shortlog -sn --since="1 month ago" — recent activity git shortlog -sn --no-merges — exclude merge commits

Great for release notes, team reports, and understanding code ownership.

Challenge

View a contribution summary

WorkshopSimulated · no real damage

Terminal~/project·main

Idle

Working treemain

Not a git repository. git init to start.

Commit graph

main

Commits will appear here.

Each command rewrites this graph in real time.