title: How to get the author of the last commit in Git?
body: <p>How to get the author of the latest commit in a Git repository?</p>
  <pre class="lang-bash prettyprint-override"><code>#!/bin/bash
  
  git_log=`git ls-remote git url  master`
  git_commitId = git_log | cut -d &quot; &quot; -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:&quot;%an&quot;`;
      echo $git_authorName
  fi
  </code></pre>