Show HN: Who Did Git? – Find out who the made that unknown commit

You can also add &quot;.patch&quot; at the end of a github commit url, which will show the users email address. For example:<p><a href="https://github.com/TinyCC/TinyCC/commit/c52d79605a3c895a16e18f0b7193f1f4b480a60f.patch" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;TinyCC&#x2F;TinyCC&#x2F;commit&#x2F;c52d79605a3c895a16e1...</a>

For certain repositories it&#x27;s also useful to install a git hook to prevent individuals from pushing without properly configuring name&#x2F;email in .gitconfig. This assumes you have administrative access to the server, of course.

wait, isn&#x27;t it one of core purpose of VCS like Git to know who is doing commit ?<p>I mean how can you not know who did commit ?