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Get the list of git committers in order of their commits. Useful for populating authors/editors lists in W3C specifications.
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git-authors.sh
git log --pretty=format:'%aN' --numstat | awk '{
if ($0 ~ /^$/) { next }
if ($0 ~ /^[^0-9]/) {
author = $0;
gsub(/^Author: /, "", author);
} else {
inserted = $1;
deleted = $2;
total = inserted + deleted;
lines[author] += total;
}
} END {
for (author in lines) {
printf "%d\t%s\n", lines[author], author;
}
}' | sort -nr
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