From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:43:49 GMT
Subject: Re: Altering Previous Commits' Author Field.
Message-ID: <200902242243.49612.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <c115fd3c0902241329i2455bc8bj62ec41856773be30@mail.gmail.com>

tisdag 24 februari 2009 22:29:15 skrev Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com>:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I have two identities that git knows me as, one for personal and the
> other for work.  I just realized that I project I've been doing some
> work on at work was using the global config file on that box because I
> had forgotten to a project specific config to change my identity.  Is
> there any way for me to edit the history so that the Author of all of
> those commits is changed to my personal identity?

If you haven't published your branch you can use git-filter-branch to
rewrite using the --env-filter "export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=...  etc"

-- robin