Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Git::Contributors(3)

NAME
Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Git::Contributors - Add contributor names from git to your distribution

VERSION
version 0.030

SYNOPSIS
In your dist.ini:

    [Git::Contributors]

DESCRIPTION
This is a Dist::Zilla plugin that extracts all names and email addresses from git commits in your repository and adds them to the distribution metadata under the "x_contributors" key. It takes a minimalist approach to this -- no data is stuffed into other locations, including stashes -- if other plugins wish to work with this information, they should extract it from the distribution metadata.

RECOMMENDED PERL VERSION
This module uses unicode comparison routines as well as casefolding semantics (when available); Perl 5.016 is recommended.

CONFIGURATION OPTIONS

  "include_authors"
When true, authors (as defined by the preamble section in your dist.ini) are added to the list of contributors. When false, authors are filtered out of the list of contributors. Defaults to false.

  "include_releaser"
Defaults to true; set to false to remove the current user (who is doing the distribution release) from the contributors list. It is applied after "include_authors", so you will be removed from the list even if you are (one of the) distribution author(s) and "include_authors = 1".

You probably don't want this option -- it was added experimentally to change how contributors are displayed on <http://metacpan.org>, but it was decided that this should be managed at a different layer than the metadata.

  "order_by"
When "order_by = name", contributors are sorted alphabetically (ascending); when "order_by = commits", contributors are sorted by number of commits made to the repository (descending). The default value is "name".

  "path"
Available since version 0.007.

Indicates a path, relative to the repository root, to search for commits in. Technically: "Consider only commits that are enough to explain how the files that match the specified paths came to be." Defaults to the repository root. Can be used more than once. You should almost certainly not need this.

  "remove"
Available since version 0.011.

Any contributor entry matching this regular expression is removed from inclusion. Can be used more than once.

CANONICALIZING NAMES AND ADDRESSES
If you or a contributor uses multiple names and/or email addresses to make commits and would like them mapped to a canonical value (e.g. their "cpan.org" address), you can do this by adding a .mailmap file to your git repository, with entries formatted as described in "MAPPING AUTHORS" in "git help shortlog" (<https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-shortlog.html>).

Duplicate names that share the same email address will be removed automatically (keeping the form associated with the latest commit).

ADDING CONTRIBUTORS TO POD DOCUMENTATION
You can add the contributor names to your module documentation by using Pod::Weaver in conjunction with Pod::Weaver::Section::Contributors.

UNICODE SUPPORT
This module aims to properly handle non-ascii characters in contributor names. However, on Windows you might need to do a bit more: see <https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/wiki/Git-for-Windows-Unicode-Support> for supported versions and extra configurations you may need to apply.

SEE ALSO

•   How I'm using Dist::Zilla to give credit to contributors <http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/1921/how-im-using-distzilla-to-give-credit-to-contributors/>

•   Pod::Weaver::Section::Contributors - weaves x_contributors data into a pod section

•   Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Meta::Contributors - adds an explicit list of names to x_contributors

•   Dist::Zilla::Plugin::ContributorsFile - takes a list of names from a file

•   Dist::Zilla::Plugin::ContributorsFromGit - more dependencies, problematic tests, passes around a lot of extra data in stashes unnecessarily

•   Dist::Zilla::Plugin::ContributorsFromPod - takes the list of contributors from pod

•   Module::Install::Contributors

SUPPORT
Bugs may be submitted through the RT bug tracker <https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Git-Contributors> (or bug-Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Git-Contributors@rt.cpan.org <mailto:bug-Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Git-Contributors@rt.cpan.org>).

There is also a mailing list available for users of this distribution, at <http://dzil.org/#mailing-list>.

There is also an irc channel available for users of this distribution, at "#distzilla" on "irc.perl.org" <irc://irc.perl.org/#distzilla>.

I am also usually active on irc, as 'ether' at "irc.perl.org".

AUTHOR
Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>

CONTRIBUTORS

•   Kent Fredric <kentnl@cpan.org>

•   Klaus Eichner <klaus03@gmail.com>

•   Matthew Horsfall <wolfsage@gmail.com>

•   Mohammad S Anwar <mohammad.anwar@yahoo.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Karen Etheridge.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.