git-rewrite-author

Rewrite authorship information within a history of a git repository.

Editing Past Commits Rewrites History!

No matter how exactly we change the information of past commits, there's one thing to always keep in mind: if we do this, we are effectively rewriting commit history. This is nothing to take lightly: you will create new commit objects in this process, which can become a serious problem for your collaborators - because they might have already based new work on some of the original commits. Therefore, think twice before you rewrite your commit history!

Further reading:

• https://help.github.com/en/github/using-git/changing-author-info
• https://www.git-tower.com/learn/git/faq/change-author-name-email

Installation

$ make build

In order to use it system-wide you need to copy the resulting binary into your preferred bin location (/usr/local/bin by default).

$ make install [prefix=/usr/local/bin]

Usage

$ git rewrite-author [--committer] [--branches] [--tags] [--old-email ...] [--new-email ...] [--old-name ...] [--new-name ...] [cwd]

Contributing

1. Fork it (https://github.com/Sija/git-rewrite-author/fork)
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Contributors

• Sijawusz Pur Rahnama - creator and maintainer