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How to change author in pushed commit

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What issue I've tried to solve

Some time ago, I set up a new VM to work on a new project, and after a few days of intensive work and multiple pushed commits, I figured out a typo in my email. Luckily, I've made commits to the dedicated feature branch, so I may fix it without disturbing the team

How to fix it

  • Open the terminal (console, command prompt, etc.) and go to the source code folder.
  • Switch to rebase mode 
   ➜  git rebase -i HEAD~<N>
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where <N> is amount of commits from HEAD.
Or you may specify commit hash or branch

   ➜  git rebase -i 0893420285a5813ddd4a2c86f40054fa4968c9cf
   ➜  git rebase -i master
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  • Mark required commits to edit (with e letter)
  • Repeat required times 
   ➜  git commit --amend --author="Vladislav Bochenin <vladislav.bochenin@email.com>" --no-edit
   ➜  git rebase --continue
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  • Check if everything is ok 
   ➜  git log
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  • Push changes 
   ➜  git push --force
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Evgenii Vladimirovich Litvin •

Good text.

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Komi •

I'm grateful to the author for such an understandable and useful article. Waiting for the new posts, colleague!

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KoTiKmyrKoTiK •

A pretty good solution. Thanks for the post!