diff --git a/AUTHORS.rst b/AUTHORS.rst
index 8b1070bb6..8952c6c4d 100644
--- a/AUTHORS.rst
+++ b/AUTHORS.rst
@@ -145,3 +145,4 @@ Contributors
 - Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>
 - Linnea Gräf <nea@nea.moe>
 - Raphael Schlarb <info@raphael.schlarb.one>
+- Matthias Schoettle <opensource@mattsch.com>
diff --git a/docs/scripts.rst b/docs/scripts.rst
index 829546cd2..851846ff8 100644
--- a/docs/scripts.rst
+++ b/docs/scripts.rst
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 ..
   SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Nico Rikken <nico.rikken@fsfe.org>
+  SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Matthias Schoettle <opensource@mattsch.com>
 
   SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0
 
@@ -58,6 +59,22 @@ This output is convenient for use in larger scripts.
 
 .. SPDX-SnippetEnd
 
+Year of first commit while following renames
+====================
+
+If you want to follow file renames in the Git history, you can use the `--follow` argument.
+This requires you to pass the file to `git log`.
+
+.. SPDX-SnippetBegin
+.. SPDX-Snippet-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+  $ git log --follow --date="format:%Y" --format="format:%cd" -- docs/scripts.rst | tail -n 1
+  2022
+
+.. SPDX-SnippetEnd
+
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 Authors
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