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The committer is the person who committed the code or applied the patch on behalf of the original author. It's generally a project maintainer or core member.

Default

The default Committer is the OS user.

How to set the committer of a new commit?

GIT_COMMITTER_NAME='Committer' GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL='[email protected]' git commit --author 'Author <[email protected]>'

Committer information is taken from the following environment variables, if set: 

GIT_COMMITTER_NAME
GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL
GIT_COMMITTER_DATE

How to see the committer information?

By default on git log, only the author data shows.

To see the committer date you can either format the log specifically for that: 

git log --pretty='%cn %cd' -n1 HEAD
# where `cn` and `cd` stand for `Committer Name` and `Committer Date`

or use the fuller predefined format: 

git log --format=fuller

How to set the committer date of a new commit?

GIT_COMMITTER_DATE='2000-01-01T00:00:00+0000' git commit --date='2000-01-01T00:00:00+0000'

where: