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Changing author info
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change_author.sh
#!/bin/sh
git filter-branch --env-filter '
OLD_EMAIL="[email protected]"
CORRECT_NAME="Your Correct Name"
CORRECT_EMAIL="[email protected]"
if [ "$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL" = "$OLD_EMAIL" ]
then
export GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$CORRECT_NAME"
export GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="$CORRECT_EMAIL"
fi
if [ "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL" = "$OLD_EMAIL" ]
then
export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="$CORRECT_NAME"
export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="$CORRECT_EMAIL"
fi
' --tag-name-filter cat -- --branches --tags
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weiting-tw commented Jul 2, 2018 •
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Create a fresh, bare clone of your repository:

git clone --bare https://github.com/user/repo.git && cd repo.git
cd repo.git

Copy and paste the script, replacing the following variables based on the information you gathered:
OLD_EMAIL
CORRECT_NAME
CORRECT_EMAIL

update command:

git push --force --tags origin 'refs/heads/*'

Clean up the temporary clone:

cd .. rm -rf repo.git

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