Add command to top of AUTHORS file to find missing people

budivoy · Apr 7, 2012 · 0411c47 · 0411c47
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-People with a * next to their names are not found in the metadata of the git history.
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 All people who contributed to SymPy by sending at least a patch or more (in
 the order of the date of their first contribution), except those who
-explicitly didn't want to be mentioned:
+explicitly didn't want to be mentioned.  You can find missing people from this
+file by using git log --reverse --format="%aN <%aE>" | awk ' !x[$0]++' (the
+order from that command will be a little different, but close to the order
+here).  People with a * next to their names are not found in the metadata of
+the git history.
 
 Ondřej Čertík <ondrej@certik.cz>
 Fabian Pedregosa <fabian@fseoane.net>