List all developers on a project in Git

Question

Is it possible to list all users that contributed to a project (users that have done commits) in Git?

Any additional statistics?

Answer 1

(users that have done commits)

Note: by default git shortlog groups commits by authors.

If you need to group them by committers, you will need Git 2.12 (Q1 2017)

git shortlog -snc

See commit 03f4082 (16 Dec 2016) by Jeff King (peff).
See commit fbfda15 (11 Oct 2016) by Linus Torvalds (torvalds).
^{(Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit ad1b4e2, 27 Dec 2016)}

Linus Torvalds himself introduces this feature:

shortlog: group by committer information

In some situations you may want to group the commits not by author, but by committer instead.

For example, when I just wanted to look up what I'm still missing from linux-next in the current merge window, I don't care so much about who wrote a patch, as what git tree it came from, which generally boils down to "who committed it".

So make git shortlog take a "-c" or "--committer" option to switch grouping to that.