🧬 Extract and analyze contributors info from git repos
OSINT tool to extract info about persons from git repositories: common names, emails, matches between different (as it may seems) accounts.
Install git
Run:
# from any git url
./gitcolombo.py -u https://github.com/Kalanchyovskaia16/newlps
# from directory, recursively
./gitcolombo.py -d ./newlps -r
# from all GitHub personal/org repos by nickname
./gitcolombo.py --nickname LubyRuffy
For batch cloning from Gitlab and Bitbucket group repos you can use ghorg.
Output:
verbose persons info
emails used for the same name
different names for the same person
general statistics
[RUS] https://telegra.ph/Gitcolombo---OSINT-v-GitHub-03-02
TL;DR
Nice explanation: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18750808/difference-between-author-and-committer-in-git
Very often developers make inaccurate commits with the one name/email (e.g. work account), then change to the right (e.g. personal account) and make git commit --amend
, but forget to change the author of the commit.
This way we can use it for OSINT as match of names/emails from git history.