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

In short, when you do a Pull Request to a gihub/gitlab/etc hosted repo and is accepted by the repo's maintainer, you are the author, he/she is the commiter.

And when you git cloned this repo, use git cat-file -p xxx_hash will display author & commiter message.