diff --git a/git.git-authors b/git.git-authors
index 4428dfb78..8be50a412 100644
--- a/git.git-authors
+++ b/git.git-authors
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ ok	Paul Kocher <paul@cryptography.com>
 ok	Peter Hagervall <hager@cs.umu.se>
 ok	Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
 ok	Pieter de Bie <pdebie@ai.rug.nl>
+ok	René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
 ok	Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
 ok	Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
 ok	Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>