Added support for a new make target 'authors' that generates an AUTHORS.md file from the git commit history. Added the new invocation 'make target'. (issue #442)
coverage: 34.196%. remained the same
when pulling 21812ce6399eae739d1880773284a3e79b445785 on anil/make-authors
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