https://github.com/jorianwoltjer/git-authors
Enumerate authors in Git logs of large sets of repositories for OSINT, to find names and emails
https://github.com/jorianwoltjer/git-authors
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Enumerate authors in Git logs of large sets of repositories for OSINT, to find names and emails
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/jorianwoltjer/git-authors
- Owner: JorianWoltjer
- Created: 2025-08-22T07:26:19.000Z (10 months ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2025-08-22T12:19:56.000Z (10 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-02-25T01:01:35.282Z (4 months ago)
- Topics: cli, git, github, osint, security
- Language: Rust
- Homepage:
- Size: 171 KB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 0
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# git-authors
**Enumerate authors in Git logs of large sets of repositories for OSINT, to find names and emails.**
Git stores commits with an "author", consisting of a name and email. These can't easily be viewed on UIs like GitHub, but need to be cloned to view the raw data. This simple tool implements a fast multi-threaded solution that outputs all unique authors from the given repositories.
> [!NOTE]
> Not all results are guaranteed to be aliases of *one person*, as multiple people can work on the same repository via Collaborators and Pull Requests. Evaluate the results manually for matches.
## Installation
```bash
cargo install gitauthors
```
Or **download** and **extract** a pre-compiled binary from the [Releases](https://github.com/JorianWoltjer/git-authors/releases) page.
## Usage
You can pass any of the following types of URLs into this tool:
* Any Git URL (eg. `https://github.com/JorianWoltjer/git-authors.git` or `git@github.com:JorianWoltjer/git-authors.git`)
* GitHub Users (eg. `https://github.com/JorianWoltjer`)
* GitHub Organizations (eg. `https://github.com/twitter`)
The simplest usage is passing such a URL as an argument (multiple supported):
```bash
gitauthors https://github.com/JorianWoltjer/git-authors
```
If no arguments are provided, it listens on **stdin** for newline-separated URLs. This lets you pipe output form other commands (`|`) or files (`<`) into it.
```bash
gitauthors < urls.txt
```
The `-t` option sets the number of threads to clone with. You may have enough bandwidth to increase it for faster downloading, but the default of 10 should be pretty quick already.
```shell
$ gitauthors --help
Usage: gitauthors [OPTIONS] [URLS]...
Arguments:
[URLS]... URLs of repositories, users or orgnizations
Options:
-t, --threads Number of simultaneous threads to clone with [default: 10]
-h, --help Print help
```