Git - list all authors of a folder of files?

Question

How can I list the author names of a particular folder that\'s versioned by git?

I see that I can git blame a file and list the author of each line, but I c

Answer 1

If you want only the list of authors of a repository:

git ls-files | xargs -n1 git blame --line-porcelain | sed -n 's/^author //p' | sort -d | uniq

If you want to do it for a file order by the number of lines of code contributions it is simple:

git blame --line-porcelain "_MY_FILE_" | sed -n 's/author //p' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn

If you want to do it for the whole repository also ordered by code contributions:

git ls-files | xargs -n1 git blame --line-porcelain | sed -n 's/^author //p' | sort -f | uniq -ic | sort -nr