How to see contributor's email address on Git commit chain?

Question

I can\'t see how to email a contributor on github after lengthy attempts, and google searches. Why does every beginners guide encourage us to immediately configure our user.emai

Answer 1

Here is some command to get author and email of the last commit:

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

Here the version for older git versions (<= 1.6)

git log -1 --pretty=format:"%an <%ae>"