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Document git shortlog issue in Makefile #671

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Expand Up @@ -470,14 +470,16 @@ docker: $(done_dir)/docker_$(pymn)_$(PACKAGE_LEVEL).done
authors: AUTHORS.md
@echo "Makefile: $@ done."

# Make sure the AUTHORS.md file is up to date but has the old date when it did not change to prevent redoing dependent targets
# Make sure the AUTHORS.md file is up to date but has the old date when it did
# not change to prevent redoing dependent targets. In GitHub Actions, the
# 'git shortlog' command does not return authors anymore since around 8/2024.
# This is tolerated by leaving the file unchanged.
AUTHORS.md: _always
echo "# Authors of this project" >AUTHORS.md.tmp
echo "" >>AUTHORS.md.tmp
echo "Sorted list of authors derived from git commit history:" >>AUTHORS.md.tmp
echo '```' >>AUTHORS.md.tmp
sh -c "git shortlog --summary --email | cut -f 2 | sort >log.tmp"
sh -c "ls -l log.tmp"
sh -c "cat log.tmp >>AUTHORS.md.tmp"
echo '```' >>AUTHORS.md.tmp
sh -c "if ! grep -q '[^[:space:]]' log.tmp; then echo 'Warning - git shortlog does not display any authors - leaving AUTHORS.md file unchanged'; else if ! diff -q AUTHORS.md.tmp AUTHORS.md; then echo 'Updating AUTHORS.md as follows:'; diff AUTHORS.md.tmp AUTHORS.md; mv AUTHORS.md.tmp AUTHORS.md; else echo 'AUTHORS.md was already up to date'; fi; fi"
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