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How to change the author of all your commits

Christian Vasquez on September 28, 2018

As a wise man once said: "With great power comes great responsibility" - Benjamin Parker character from the Spider-man comics. This should not ...
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Rob Hoelz

Great tip! As an alternative, if you're uncomfortable rewriting all of a project's history using git-filter-branch, Git has a feature known as mailmaps which allow you to canonicalize username and e-mail addresses.

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Chad Horohoe

Far better solution!

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John Bachir

Thanks for this! mailmap doesn't come up in google searches as much as one might expect, it's a perfect solution for me

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m¡chael cook 🐌 • Edited

Here's an example of how to fix the email address of commits.
Don't rewrite all commit authors, only the commits with the incorrect email address.

git filter-branch --env-filter '
   if [ "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL" = root@localhost ]; then
     GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=michael@example.com
   fi
 ' HEAD
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Nick Taylor • Edited

Helpful post. Thanks for sharing Christian.

We rebase at work which means we need to force a push. However, you can use a slightly safer force command.

Having said that, I renamed that alias a while back to pf. More aliases here.

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Christian Vasquez • Edited

That sounds awesome! I'll give it a try!

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Multi

Thanks! Very helpful. Thanks for sharing. I will definitely use that whenever I encounter a problem like that.

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Brian Lampe

Thank you for this post. I had the exact same situation. In my case, most of the commits were under my work email.

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Hendrik

Sweet and concise post, thanks a lot. This is a problem I have run into way more than I would like to admit 🙈

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Ben Halpern

Nice helpful post 😄