BLAME GAME

Link: Blame Game

• As usual, start by downloading the zipped folder for this challenge using wget and the link to the folder. You can then unzip the folder using the command unzip challenge.zip
• Once you unzip it, you’ll see a directory named drop-in in which there is a git directory and a message.py script

• When you run git log here to view the commit history, you’ll see a long list of commits that would be tedious to manually analyze.

• The clue given for this challenge is; Someone’s commits seems to be preventing the program from working. Who is it?
• When you cat the message.py script you see the following;

• You do not need to have advanced skills in python to note that there is a problem with script. This indicates that there are problems with this script and you can check the commit history of this particular file using the command git log message.py

• You get the flag as the author of the first commit.