From 34b17e58ad98edbf22d606157c650402ad5c34ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roland Walker <walker@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 20:39:56 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] 'release' arg as shortcut for most-recent-tag for
 project_stats script

---
 developer/bin/project_stats | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/developer/bin/project_stats b/developer/bin/project_stats
index bfa608b2ef..4feed2e1d7 100755
--- a/developer/bin/project_stats
+++ b/developer/bin/project_stats
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ Usage:
    With optional single argument, (eg a tag or commit-hash)
    show statistics since that commit object.
 
+   Use the special argument 'release' to calculate since the
+   most recent tag (usually the same as the last release).
+
    Without argument, show statistics since first commit.
 
 "
@@ -52,9 +55,12 @@ if [[ "$branch" != "master" ]]; then
 fi
 
 printf "Unique contributors"
-if [[ -n "$1" ]]; then
+if [[ "$1" = 'release' ]]; then
+    start_object="$(git describe --tags --abbrev=0)"
+    printf " since $start_object"
+elif [[ -n "$1" ]]; then
     start_object="$1"
-    printf " since $1"
+    printf " since $start_object"
 fi
 printf "\n"