add script for updating AUTHORS file

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/update-authors.sh b/scripts/update-authors.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..8708e240e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/update-authors.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+git log --reverse --format='%aN <%aE>' | awk '
+BEGIN {
+  print "# Authors sorted by whether or not they'\''re me";
+}
+
+{
+  if (all[$NF] != 1) {
+    all[$NF] = 1;
+    ordered[length(all)] = $0;
+  }
+}
+
+END {
+  for (i in ordered) {
+    print ordered[i];
+  }
+}
+' > AUTHORS
\ No newline at end of file