jpietrzyk
11/27/2017 - 4:50 AM

Change Git user name

Basch script to change commiter name or eamil or both in whole repo

#!/bin/sh

git filter-branch --env-filter '
OLD_EMAIL="wrong.email@gmail.com"
CORRECT_NAME="username"
CORRECT_EMAIL="user@gmail.com"
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