How to get authors of changes between 2 commits?

Question

I am trying to get authors of changes between 2 commits.

What would be the best for me is something like:

git diff --name-only master

but instead of

--name-only

parameter like

--authors-only

But unfortunately diff does not have such one. There is no restriction I have to use diff command, git log or others are also fine.

I need to it to blame people who caused tests to fail.

DAle · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-13T11:00:10.093

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git log --pretty=format:"%an" prevTestCommit..lastTestCommit | sort | uniq

edited Apr 13 '17 at 11:00

answered Apr 13 '17 at 07:12

DAle

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

3

you can use something like

git log --pretty=format:"%an %aE" f398e997ea9ad81e586b1f751693cd336963ba6a ^bb69eb11d979437a0b390ac9333342e7594c211c

where the format will print the author name and email and than the commits see List commits between 2 commit hashes in git

for more information on how to use get the commits between two given commits.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

Community

answered Apr 13 '17 at 07:01

Srgrn

For some reason signs " ^" betweend hashes does not work for me, I needed to put ".." like stated in @DAle answer. – Michał Apr 13 '17 at 07:37

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 13 '17 at 07:01

0

Not sure if this exists per default, but you could specify a custom output format for git log:

git log --pretty="format:%an"

This would print only author names. For more details, see the section PRETTY FORMATS in git log --help

answered Apr 13 '17 at 07:01

Alderath

3 Answers3