diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
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+Ahmed Tahri
+Asuki Kono
+belono
+Christoph Heuel
+Cody (Quantified Code Bot)
+Curtis // mashedkeyboard
+Davis Goglin
+Dean Rispin
+Dmytro Katyukha
+Hark
+Joel Lehtonen
+Kristi
+ldos
+Manuel F Martinez
+Michael Billington
+Michael Elsdörfer
+Nathan Bookham
+Patrick Kanzler
+Qian Linfeng
+Renato Lorenzi
+Romain Porte
+Sam Cheng
+Stephan Sokolow
+Thijs Triemstra
+Thomas van den Berg
+ysuolmai
diff --git a/generate_authors.sh b/generate_authors.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+git shortlog -s -n | cut -f2 | sort