Counting All Git Commits from All Authors and More with Git Shortlog

Answer questions like who committed to this repo and who are the active contributors.

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0:00 -- Intro
0:24 -- This can be useful for a few use cases
1:50 -- Running git shortlog to see info about all committers in a branch
2:17 -- The all flag runs it against all branches
3:11 -- Showing only non-merge commits
3:37 -- Showing only merge commits (typically PRs)
4:15 -- Only showing the commit author and count with a summary
4:58 -- Filtering the output by author
5:17 -- Filtering by date using the before and since flags
8:03 -- Showing a custom format with the date, git hash and commit message
9:34 -- Visualizing contributor stats on GitHub and GitLab
10:19 -- I still use the command line for quickly finding these stats