NAME

Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Authors - Build AUTHORS file from Git history

VERSION

version 0.1.0

SYNOPSIS

If you want to auto-generate an AUTHORS file listing all commiters from Git history you can use this Plugin like the example below.

name = Foo-Bar
[@Basic]
[Authors]

DESCRIPTION

Auto generate AUTHORS file including every commiters in the format:

Author Name <author email>

It collects also every author name on Git commit messages containing the strings below:

Signed-off-by: Author Name <author email>
Co-authored-by: Author Name <author email>

The Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Authors respects the `.mailmap` to reduce duplication of authors on the generated AUTHORS file.

AUTHOR

Joenio Marques da Costa <joenio@joenio.me>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2022 by Joenio Marques da Costa.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.