author_commits_per_year

#!/usr/bin/env bash
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# Prints the number of commits per year per author.
#
# <year> <author_first_name> <author_last_name> <number_of_commits>

# Determine root directory:
root="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)"

# Define the path to a utility to generate commit short stats:
shortstats="${root}/tools/git/scripts/shortstats"

# * `shortstats`
#   - Get summary statistics for each commit.
# * `awk '{}'`
#   - Tabulate the yearly totals.
# * `sort -k1n`
#   - Sort the year numerically.
"${shortstats}" | awk '
{
	# Update yearly totals per author:
	lines[$5,$6,$7] += 1
}
END {
	for (k in lines) {
		split(k, keys, SUBSEP)
		print keys[1] OFS keys[2] OFS keys[3] OFS lines[k]
	}
}
' | sort -k1n