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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+#
+# authors - List files in get repo by author, using wildcards
+#
+# Copyright 2013 by Werner Almesberger
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+
+
+$WIDTH = 79;
+
+open(LOG, "git log --format='%an <%ae>' --name-only --no-merges |") ||
+   die "popen log";
+while (<LOG>) {
+	chop;
+	if (/^$/) {
+		$a = $last;
+		undef $last;
+		next;
+	}
+	if (defined $last) {
+		push @{ $f{$last} }, $a;
+		$a{$a} = 1;
+	}
+	$last = $_;
+}
+if (defined $last) {
+	push @{ $f{$last} }, $a;
+	$a{$a} = 1;
+}
+close LOG;
+
+
+sub add
+{
+	local ($a, $f) = @_;
+	local $d, $n, $t;
+	local $best, $best_k, $k;
+
+	if ($f =~ m|/([^/]+)$|) {
+		$d = "$`/";
+		$n = $1;
+	} else {
+		$d = "";
+		$n = $f;
+	}
+	undef $best;
+	undef $best_k;
+	LONGER: for ($i = 0; $i <= length $n; $i++) {
+		$t = $d.substr($n, 0, $i);
+		$k = 0;
+		FIT: for (keys %f) {
+			next unless substr($_, 0, length $t) eq $t;
+			$k++;
+			for (@{ $f{$_} }) {
+				next FIT if $_ eq $a;
+			}
+			next LONGER;
+		}
+		last if $best_k > $k;
+		$best = $t;
+		$best_k = $k;
+	}
+	if ($best eq $f) {
+		$m{$f} = 1;
+	} else {
+		$m{"$best*"} = 1;
+	}
+}
+
+
+for $a (sort keys %a) {
+	undef %m;
+	for $f (keys %f) {
+		for (@{ $f{$f} }) {
+			next if $_ ne $a;
+			&add($a, $f);
+			last;
+		}
+	}
+	next unless %m;
+	print $a, "\n";
+	undef $p;
+	for (sort keys %m) {
+		if (!defined $p) {
+			$p = $_;
+			next;
+		}
+		if (length("$p $_") > $WIDTH) {
+			print "$p\n";
+			$p = $_;
+		} else {
+			$p .= " $_";
+		}
+	}
+	print $p, "\n\n";
+}