- The GitHub list commits API now supports this filtering
(https://docs.github.com/en/rest/commits/commits?apiVersion=2022-11-28#list-commits--parameters),
because I wrote it. :-)
- Authoring a commit and committing a commit are two separate concepts: author
is the person who wrote the code and, in old parlance, the committer is the
person who applied the patch (remember when we sent patches to mailing lists?).
- In practice for us in Homebrew, this occurs when we make a change in GitHub's
web editor, or, more obviously, when BrewTestBot pushes `homebrew-core`
commits from users (then, `BrewTestBot` is the `committer`).
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