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How to Retrieve the Email of a Commit’s Author

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To retrieve the email of a commit’s author in Git, there are a few commands that you can use:

1. git log

To fetch the email of the author of the last commit, you can use the following command:

git log -1 --pretty=%ae

This will display the email address of the author of the most recent commit.

e.g.,

$ git log -1 --pretty=%ae
hello@world.hi

2. git rev-list or git show

If you want to fetch the email of the author of a specific commit, you can use either of the following commands:

git rev-list --pretty=format:%ae --max-count=1 <commit_hash>

or

git show -s --format=%ae <commit_hash>

Replace <commit_hash> with the hash of the commit you want to retrieve the author’s email address from.

The first command git rev-list or git show will display the email of the author of the specified commit.

e.g.,

$ git rev-list --pretty=format:%ae --max-count=1 6efd100a8004191ddfd9
commit 6efd100a8004191ddfd9
hello@world.hi

or

$ git show -s --format=%ae 6efd100a8004191ddfd9
hello@world.hi

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