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Juan Pinzón
Asked: 2020-05-16 20:51:25 +0800 CST 2020-05-16 20:51:25 +0800 CST

How to get the author name of a Git repository?

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I am making a git repository viewer for web, for which I need to get the name of the repository author.

By author I mean the person who created the repository.

I have searched and found this command:

git show --format="%aN <%aE>"

Which gives me as a result:

Juan Pinz<C3><B3>n <[email protected]>

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..291468e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# GitCli^M
+Simple git viewer
\ No newline at end of file

Is there a way to get only the author name of the repository?

git

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I've gone through the official documentation and achieved this using:

    git show --format=format:"Autor: %an" --no-patch

    Where --formatit allows me to define the format and the information of the repository that I want to show, in this case I use %anthat means author name, and with --no-patchI eliminate the diff output

    Resulting in:

    Autor: Juan Pinz<C3><B3>n

    Source: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-show

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