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When writing a file: 422 (Unprocessable Entity)

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Hello,

I am trying to write a file doing:

```javascript
new GitHub(authPayload)
.getRepo(githubUsername, repoName)
.writeFile(null, path, content, commitMessage, {
encode: true,
author: null,
committer: null
})
```

But i am getting a `422 (Unprocessable Entity)`. This is a new file, and I am seeing in the log the `404 (Not Found)` from the call trying to get the SHA which is correct ( i dont understand why this is dumped into the console tho...).

Looking online at https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/contents/#create-or-update-file-contents , it seems that when `author` and `committer` are used , then we need to specify `name` and `author`. But in my case, I would like to use the default behavior which is to use the authenticated user.

When I look at http://github-tools.github.io/github/docs/3.2.3/Repository.js.html#line750 , it seems that the keys are set. Should they not be here at all, in case they are not given in the `option` payload ?

Thank you !

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