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4/20/2016 - 2:11 AM

Git - Replace all author name/email with same old_email (by branch)

Git - Replace all author name/email with same old_email (by branch)

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  1. Open Terminal.

  2. Create a fresh, bare clone of your repository:

git clone --bare https://github.com/user/repo.git
cd repo.git
  1. Edit the scripts with your variables.
  2. Edit OLD_EMAIL, CORRECT_NAME and CORRECT_EMAIL with your variables.
  3. # git push --force --tags origin 'refs/heads/*'
  4. Clean up the temporary clone.
git-author-rewrite.sh
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#!/bin/sh

git filter-branch --env-filter '

OLD_EMAIL="your-old-email@example.com"
CORRECT_NAME="Your Correct Name"
CORRECT_EMAIL="your-correct-email@example.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