Working with Github.com - Git Recipes - page 478

Figure 12-6 . The list of revisions presented by Github
As you will remember from Recipe 8-1, every revision stores two special attributes
to assign authorship. They are Author and Commit . Author is the name of the per-
son who created the code. Commit is the name of the person who created the revision.
For the revisions presented in Figure 12-6 both Author and Commit are set to the
same person, Włodzimierz Gajda and email [e-mail] . Github uses
this email to guess the name of the account. Therefore my commits are captioned as
authored by gajdaw . Because the Author and Commit data are the same, the au-
thorship is reduced to simple gajdaw . This means that gajdaw created the code and
the commit.
What happens if the commit contains a different name for Author and a different
name for Commit ? Github presents this information as shown in Figure 12-7 . The re-
vision presented in Figure 12-7 was authored by John Doe and rebased by gajdaw.
Github displays these messages: