From Dave: For fun, here's the Git version of the "AUTHORS with commits in the past year" part of your script: ----8<---- savbu-usnic-a ~/g/ompi-svn-mirror git:master ❮❮❮ git log --all --since='1 year ago' --pretty=tformat:'%ae' | sort | uniq -c 39 adrian@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com 3 alex@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com 5 alinas@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com 9 amikheev@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com 90 bosilca@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com 22 brbarret@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com 5 devendar@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com 60 dgoodell@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com 8 edgar@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com 48 ggouaillardet@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com 4 hadi@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com 295 hjelmn@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com 4 hpcchris@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com 2 hppritcha@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com 28 jladd@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com 2 jroman@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com 697 jsquyres@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com 11 jurenz@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com 3 manjugv@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com 209 miked@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com 24 mpiteam@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com 4 naughtont@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com 50 osvegis@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com 2 pasha@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com 5 regrant@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com 6 rfaucett@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com 1516 rhc@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com 79 rolfv@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com 2 swise@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com 7 vasily@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com 1 vvenkatesan@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com 10 yosefe@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com ----8<---- And the "NO commits": ----8<---- savbu-usnic-a ~/g/ompi-svn-mirror git:master ❯❯❯ git log --all --since='1 year ago' --pretty=tformat:'%ae' | sort | uniq > /tmp/active ; git log --pretty=tformat:'%ae' --all | sort | uniq > /tmp/all ; diff -u /tmp/all /tmp/active | grep '^-[^-]' -abbyz@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com -adi@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com -adkulkar@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com -afriedle@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com -alekseys@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com -alexma@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com -angskun@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com -Anya@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com -apant@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com -bbenton@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com -bouteill@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com -casswell@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com -coti@open-mpi-git-mirror.example.com [...] ----8<----