Netlify-cms: Wrong user mentioned in git commit when content is deleted

[bert-bruggeman]

When users (with git-gateway and netlify identify) delete content, the commit message says that I deleted the content, first I thought I was hacked or something, it's scary seeing your account doing something while you're asleep : )

In the future I would like to know who removed something...

[minyangu-bgl]

Pls can we have an update. Otherwise it is super confusing for content auditing.

[erezrokah]

@minyangu-bgl, can you share your config.yml and whether you're using git-gateway with GitHub or GitLab?

Looks like we are setting the commit author (information taken from identity):
https://github.com/netlify/netlify-cms/blob/ba18f4a99fcae42caf1b03794e3f4a219d70f016/packages/netlify-cms-backend-github/src/API.ts#L944

But we might need to set the committer:
https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/contents/#delete-a-file

[KancerEzeroglu]

@erezrokah If nobody is working on this issue, I would like to work on this.

[erezrokah]

This was fixed in https://github.com/netlify/netlify-cms/pull/4139 by switching to the commits API instead of the delete file API)

[minyangu-bgl]

thanks guys!