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Git: an easy way to change authors name

Posted by Leon Bogaert on in Development, Linux 

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git filter-branch --commit-filter 'if [ "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME" = "LeonB" ];
then export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="Leon Bogaert"; export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=leon@tim-online.nl;

After this is done you can do:

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git push -f

It says some scary things like:

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# Your branch and 'origin/v3' have diverged,
# and have 75 and 75 different commits each, respectively.

But you can Ignore those.

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