Add circular dependencies script

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diff --git a/contrib/devtools/README.md b/contrib/devtools/README.md
index 15ee8a3959..7ac8aa39d3 100644
--- a/contrib/devtools/README.md
+++ b/contrib/devtools/README.md
@@ -194,3 +194,14 @@ It will do the following automatically:
 - add missing translations to the build system (TODO)
 
 See doc/translation-process.md for more information.
+
+circular-dependencies.py
+========================
+
+Run this script from the root of the source tree (`src/`) to find circular dependencies in the source code.
+This looks only at which files include other files, treating the `.cpp` and `.h` file as one unit.
+
+Example usage:
+
+    cd .../src
+    ../contrib/devtools/circular-dependencies.py {*,*/*,*/*/*}.{h,cpp}