How can i get just the authors of a specific file from a git-repo?

Question

I have a git-repo and need only the authors of a specific file. I can extract the authors from the git-blame command, but is there an easier way to get only the author names of a file?

Accepted Answer

```
git log --format=%an -- $file
```

will show you all commits for that file and only the authors for that commit. so you have one author per line

another easy solution would be to use `git shortlog`

```
git shortlog -s -- $file # add -n to sort by number of commits
```

How can i get just the authors of a specific file from a git-repo?

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