committer

noun3

1. •
   A person who is authorized to make changes to source code or other material in a repository.
2. •
   (no longer used) A fornicator.

   • The sin of many men Is within you, and thus much I suppose That if all committers stood in ranke, They'd make a lane[…] <br<And with their spaces reach from hence to hell. — 1604
3. •
   (no longer used) A person who commits a crime; perpetrator.

   • For some here affirm, that Sin is said to be the Punishment of Sin, because in most sinful Actions, the Committer of them is really a Sufferer in and by the very Sin which he commits — 1692