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[arzzen]

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[quique]

It works fine on my system (Debian based).

What do you get from this command?
git shortlog --no-merges -n -s

[jacob-swanson]

    75  Lukas Mestan
     2  Joopmicroop
     1  Andrew Huss
     1  Brian Kroth
     1  Dustin Blomquist
     1  Linell
     1  Melih Değiş
     1  Nicholas Skinsacos
     1  Raimon Grau

I am using zsh, but I tried it in bash and got the same result.

[jacob-swanson]

Looks like column is messing it up.

➜  git-quick-stats git:(master) ✗ git shortlog --no-merges -n -s | sort -nr | awk '
{ args[NR] = $0; sum += $0 }
    END {
      for (i = 1; i <= NR; ++i) {
        printf "%s,%2.1f%%\n", args[i], 100 * args[i] / sum
      }
    }'               
    75	Lukas Mestan,89.3%
     2	Joopmicroop,2.4%
     1	Raimon Grau,1.2%
     1	Nicholas Skinsacos,1.2%
     1	Melih Değiş,1.2%
     1	Linell,1.2%
     1	Dustin Blomquist,1.2%
     1	Brian Kroth,1.2%
     1	Andrew Huss,1.2%

➜  git-quick-stats git:(master) ✗ git shortlog --no-merges -n -s | sort -nr | awk '
{ args[NR] = $0; sum += $0 }
    END {
      for (i = 1; i <= NR; ++i) {
        printf "%s,%2.1f%%\n", args[i], 100 * args[i] / sum
      }
    }' | column -t -s,
75\x09Lukas Mestan       89.3%
2\x09Joopmicroop         2.4%
1\x09Raimon Grau         1.2%
1\x09Nicholas Skinsacos  1.2%
1\x09Melih Değiş         1.2%
1\x09Linell              1.2%
1\x09Dustin Blomquist    1.2%
1\x09Brian Kroth         1.2%
1\x09Andrew Huss         1.2%

[quique]

I tried it on a fresh install of Fedora 26, and it worked fine.

I believe this is not a bug but a configuration issue on your system.
What's the output of the locale command?

[jacob-swanson]

I don't think I have anything strange going on besides the fact that I'm using zsh and oh-my-zsh. Besides, it happens when I use bash too.

➜  ~ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

[quique]

I mean it doesn't seem to be a bug in git-quick-stats.

Does something minimal such as echo -e "One\tTwo,Three" | column -t -s, work?
If it doesn't, the problem is either in your system or in the column(1) util.

[jacob-swanson]

Yeah, I agree it's not an issue with git-quick-stats. Thanks for your help though!

➜  ~ echo -e "One\tTwo,Three" | column -t -s,
One\x09Two  Three