user id should be available in commits api response

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Description

the user id is not present in commits API, author or committer emails are present but there is no way identity authenticated(Gitlab user id) user of commit

Proposal

{
        "id": "0696058f035a5631c9602bec239a61dcdf3ccccc",
        "short_id": "0696058f",
        "title": "commit message",
        "created_at": "2017-03-22T17:38:22.000+05:30",
        "parent_ids": [
            "a99af2d2c3c52baf2532f74bcf9e63295545a74d"
        ],
        "message": "commit message",
        "author_name": "example",
        "author_email": "example@example.com",
        "authored_date": "2017-03-22T17:38:22.000+05:30",
        "committer_name": "example",
        "committer_email": "example@example.com",
        "committed_date": "2017-03-22T17:38:22.000+05:30",
        "user_id": "12"
    }

instead of (without user id)

{
        "id": "0696058f035a5631c9602bec239a61dcdf3ccccc",
        "short_id": "0696058f",
        "title": "commit message",
        "created_at": "2017-03-22T17:38:22.000+05:30",
        "parent_ids": [
            "a99af2d2c3c52baf2532f74bcf9e63295545a74d"
        ],
        "message": "commit message",
        "author_name": "example",
        "author_email": "example@example.com",
        "authored_date": "2017-03-22T17:38:22.000+05:30",
        "committer_name": "example",
        "committer_email": "example@example.com",
        "committed_date": "2017-03-22T17:38:22.000+05:30"
    }

Links / references

https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/api/commits.html