What is the difference between author and committer in Git?

Question

I just came across the following commit on GitHub: https://github.com/felixge/node-formidable/commit/0a0b150668daa3c6f01626d2565b898e5da12392

How does one go about h

Answer 1

There aren't multiple authors associated with that commit (nor is it currently possible to assign multiple authors to a single commit). In this case, gliese1337 was the author, and felixge was the committer. Most likely, this occurred because gliese1337 submitted a pull request which was accepted and then committed by felixhe (the repository owner). That workflow's pretty common on GitHub. This is also helpful for instances when a project maintainer receives a patch via email, so the author of the patch itself still receives credit for the patch, even if he or she doesn't have commit access to the project.

A couple of related links:

Short Git Wiki section on author attribution
A feature request for multiple author functionality in Git core