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

Question

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 

Answer 1

This is what you're looking for:

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

Answer 2

Or to retrieve the author's email, instead of name:

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