diff --git a/tools/gitlog-to-authors b/tools/gitlog-to-authors
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+#!/bin/sh
+# Outputs all contributor names and e-mail addresses.
+#
+#  Copyright (C) 2013 Mike Gerwitz
+#
+#  This file is part of ease.js.
+#
+#  This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+#  the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+#  (at your option) any later version.
+#
+#  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+#  GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+#  along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+##
+
+git shortlog --summary --email \
+  | cut -f2-
diff --git a/tools/gitlog-to-news b/tools/gitlog-to-news
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+#!/bin/sh
+# Formats and concatenates long commit messages
+#
+#  Copyright (C) 2013 Mike Gerwitz
+#
+#  This file is part of ease.js.
+#
+#  This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+#  the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+#  (at your option) any later version.
+#
+#  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+#  GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+#  along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+##
+
+# format long commit messages
+git log --log-size --format="%H%n%B" \
+  | grep -A1 '^log size \([5-9][0-9]\{2,\}\|[0-9]\{4,\}\)$' \
+  | grep -o '^[a-z0-9]\+$' \
+  | xargs -n1 git log -n1 --date=rfc --no-notes \
+  | awk '/^commit/ && NR!=1 { printf "\n\n" } { print }'