git-authors - Man Page

• Print a full list of committers to stdout instead of to the AUTHORS file: git authors --list
• Append the list of committers to the AUTHORS file and open it in the default editor: git authors
• Append the list of committers, excluding emails, to the AUTHORS file and open it in the default editor: git authors --no-email

tldr.sh

git-authors [-l, --list] [--no-email]

Populates the file matching authors|contributors -i with the authors of commits, according to the number of commits per author. Opens the file in $EDITOR when set.

See the "MAPPING AUTHORS" section of git-shortlog(1) to coalesce together commits by the same person.

-l,  --list

Show authors.

--no-email

Don´t show authors´ email.

Updating AUTHORS file:

$ git authors

Listing authors:

$ git authors --list

TJ Holowaychuk <tj@vision-media.ca>
hemanth.hm <hemanth.hm@gmail.com>
Jonhnny Weslley <jw@jonhnnyweslley.net>
nickl- <github@jigsoft.co.za>
Leila Muhtasib <muhtasib@gmail.com>

Listing authors without email:

$ git authors --list --no-email

TJ Holowaychuk
hemanth.hm
Jonhnny Weslley
nickl-
Leila Muhtasib

Written by Titus Wormer <tituswormer@gmail.com>

<https://github.com/tj/git-extras/issues>

<https://github.com/tj/git-extras>

git-extras(1).