How to get the author of the last commit in Git?

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Saurabh singhal · Jan 9, 2017 · Viewed 19.3k times · Source

How to get the author of the latest commit in a Git repository?

#!/bin/bash

git_log=`git ls-remote git url  master`
git_commitId = git_log | cut -d " " -f1
echo $git_commitId

cd /workspace
git_log_verify = `git rev-parse HEAD`
echo $git_log_verify

if $git_commitId =$git_log_verify then
    cd /workspace
    git_authorName=`git log --pretty=format:"%an"`;
    echo $git_authorName
fi

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This is what you're looking for:

git log -1 --pretty=format:'%an'

How to get the author of the last commit in Git?

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