From 0481614fd8ce6019d0b1e01902722ff1933311d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miek Gieben <miek@miek.nl>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 09:36:26 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Document how to get the author from git (#423)

---
 Makefile.release | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Makefile.release b/Makefile.release
index 33e5dba70..2e8ecd6cd 100644
--- a/Makefile.release
+++ b/Makefile.release
@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@
 # We use https://github.com/progrium/gh-release to automate github stuff
 # be sure to have that binary in your path.
 #
+# Get a list of authors for this release with:
+#
+# git log --pretty=format:'%an' v001..master | sort -u
+# (where v001 is the previous release, obviously you'll need to adjust this)
+#
 # Steps:
 # * Get an access token: https://help.github.com/articles/creating-an-access-token-for-command-line-use/
 # * export GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN=<token>