Re: [PATCH v10 2/3] interpret-trailers: add own-identity option

On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 10:54:38AM +0800, ZheNing Hu wrote:

I am looking for how to extract each author or committer from the log.
I just know I can use:

$ git log --pretty="%an %ae" | sort | uniq

get all unique author <email> from a git repo.
Is there any function in the source code of git to get them?

If I understand Junio's suggestion correctly, it is very similar to how
"commit --author" works. See how it calls find_author_by_nickname(),
which finds the first commit matching the name, and then pulls out the
full name from format_commit_message().

-Peff