diff --git a/scripts/gitlogg-generate-log.sh b/scripts/gitlogg-generate-log.sh
index f6968d9..37beb40 100755
--- a/scripts/gitlogg-generate-log.sh
+++ b/scripts/gitlogg-generate-log.sh
@@ -72,24 +72,17 @@ if [ -d "${yourpathSanitized}" ] && [ "$(ls $yourpathSanitized)" ]; then
       (cd $dir &&
         echo -e " ${Whi}Outputting ${Pur}${PWD##*/}${RCol}" >&2 &&
         git log --all --no-merges --shortstat --reverse --pretty=format:'commits\trepository\t'"${PWD##*/}"'\tcommit_hash\t%H\tcommit_hash_abbreviated\t%h\ttree_hash\t%T\ttree_hash_abbreviated\t%t\tparent_hashes\t%P\tparent_hashes_abbreviated\t%p\tauthor_name\t%an\tauthor_name_mailmap\t%aN\tauthor_email\t%ae\tauthor_email_mailmap\t%aE\tauthor_date\t%ad\tauthor_date_RFC2822\t%aD\tauthor_date_relative\t%ar\tauthor_date_unix_timestamp\t%at\tauthor_date_iso_8601\t%ai\tauthor_date_iso_8601_strict\t%aI\tcommitter_name\t%cn\tcommitter_name_mailmap\t%cN\tcommitter_email\t%ce\tcommitter_email_mailmap\t%cE\tcommitter_date\t%cd\tcommitter_date_RFC2822\t%cD\tcommitter_date_relative\t%cr\tcommitter_date_unix_timestamp\t%ct\tcommitter_date_iso_8601\t%ci\tcommitter_date_iso_8601_strict\t%cI\tref_names\t%d\tref_names_no_wrapping\t%D\tencoding\t%e\tsubject\t%s\tsubject_sanitized\t%f\tcommit_notes\t%N\tstats\t' |
-          iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 |       # convert ISO-8859-1 encoding to UTF-8
-          sed '/^[ \t]*$/d' |                  # remove all newlines/line-breaks, including those with empty spaces
-          tr '\n' 'ȝ' |                        # convert newlines/line-breaks to a character, so we can manipulate it without much trouble
-          tr '\r' ' ' |                        # replace carriage returns with a space, so we avoid new lines popping from placeholders that allow user input
-          sed 's/tȝcommits/tȝȝcommits/g' |     # because some commits have no stats, we have to create an extra line-break to make `paste -d ' ' - -` consistent
-          tr 'ȝ' '\n' |                        # bring back all line-breaks
-          sed '{
-              N
-              s/[)]\n\ncommits/)\
-          commits/g
-          }' |                                 # some rogue mystical line-breaks need to go down to their knees and beg for mercy, which they're not getting
-          paste -d ' ' - - |                   # collapse lines so that the `shortstat` is merged with the rest of the commit data, on a single line
-          awk '{print NR"\\t",$0}' |           # print line number in front of each line, along with the `\t` delimiter
-          sed 's/\\t\ commits\\trepo/\\t\commits\\trepo/g' # get rid of the one space that shouldn't be there
+          iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 |                    # convert ISO-8859-1 encoding to UTF-8
+          sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\ncommits/\n\ncommits/g' |       # because some commits have no stats, we have to create an extra line-break for consistancy
+          tr '\r' ' ' |                                     # replace carriage returns with a space, so we avoid new lines popping from placeholders that allow user input                  
+          sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/tstats\\t\n//g'|                 # collapse lines so that the `shortstat` is merged with the rest of the commit data, on a single line
+          sed '/^[ \t]*$/d' |                               # some rogue mystical line-breaks need to go down to their knees and beg for mercy, which they're not getting
+          awk '{print NR"\\t",$0}' |                        # print line number in front of each line, along with the `\t` delimiter
+          sed 's/\\t\ commits\\trepo/\\t\commits\\trepo/g'  # get rid of the one space that shouldn't be there
       )
   done > "${tempOutputFile}"
   echo -e "\n ${Gre}The file ${Blu}${tempOutputFile} ${Gre}generated in${RCol}: ${SECONDS}s" &&
-  babel "${jsonParser}" | node                 # only parse JSON if we have a source to parse it from
+  babel "${jsonParser}" | node                # only parse JSON if we have a source to parse it from
 # if the path exists but is empty
 elif [ -d "${yourpathSanitized}" ] && [ ! "$(ls $yourpathSanitized)" ]; then
   echo -e "\n ${Whi}[ERROR 002]: ${Yel}The path to the local repositories ${Red}'${yourpath}'${Yel}, which is set on the file ${Blu}'${thisFile}' ${UYel}exists, but is empty!${RCol}"