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+Most of the infrastructure that 'perf' uses here has been reused
+from the Git project, as of version:
+
+    66996ec: Sync with 1.6.2.4
+
+Here is an (incomplete!) list of main contributors to those files
+in util/* and elsewhere:
+
+ Alex Riesen
+ Christian Couder
+ Dmitry Potapov
+ Jeff King
+ Johannes Schindelin
+ Johannes Sixt
+ Junio C Hamano
+ Linus Torvalds
+ Matthias Kestenholz
+ Michal Ostrowski
+ Miklos Vajna
+ Petr Baudis
+ Pierre Habouzit
+ René Scharfe
+ Samuel Tardieu
+ Shawn O. Pearce
+ Steffen Prohaska
+ Steve Haslam
+
+Thanks guys!
+
+The full history of the files can be found in the upstream Git commits.