Gitcolombo

Description

OSINT tool to extract info about persons from git repositories: common names, emails, matches between different (as it may seems) accounts.

Using

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
- name
- email
- number of appearences as author/committer
- other persons that person can be
emails used for the same name
different names for the same person
general statistics

Details

[RUS] https://telegra.ph/Gitcolombo---OSINT-v-GitHub-03-02

What's the difference between git author and committer?

TL;DR

author wrote the code (make the patch)
commiter commit it to the repo (rewrite history, make pull/merge requests...)

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.

TODO