Show HN: Who Did Git? – Find out who the made that unknown commit (whodidgit.herokuapp.com)

6 points by shakeel_mohamed 11y ago ↗ HN

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sciolistse 11y ago ↗

You can also add ".patch" at the end of a github commit url, which will show the users email address. For example:

https://github.com/TinyCC/TinyCC/commit/c52d79605a3c895a16e1...

shakeel_mohamed 11y ago ↗

Oh. That would've saved some time, thanks!

mojoe 11y ago ↗

For certain repositories it's also useful to install a git hook to prevent individuals from pushing without properly configuring name/email in .gitconfig. This assumes you have administrative access to the server, of course.

marsmoon 11y ago ↗

wait, isn't it one of core purpose of VCS like Git to know who is doing commit ?

I mean how can you not know who did commit ?

shakeel_mohamed 11y ago ↗

Yes. If someone doesn't configure their username or email (using git config), git will try to create an email address using the format <local_username>@<machine_name>.local and will not set a name. If there's no user.name set, and the email isn't connected to a Github account (or isn't an email address at all), Github will display "unknown" as the commit author.