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Fixing author/email fields in commit messages

From
JKJacob Kroon <jacob.kroon@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 19, 2006, 18:45 UTC
Message-ID
<43F8BCB1.2010701@gmail.com>

When I started my git repository for my project, I never setup GIT_AUTHOR_NAME etc. correctly, so my commit messages used the default information, "<jacob@skeletor.(none)>", "skeletor" being the hostname of the computer I'm working on. I'd like to change it so that the messages will contain correct information about my e-mail and username. I noticed that this question has been brought up here before and that the solution might be to use git-convert-objects, but that it might need some modifications.

Has anyone come up with a working tool for this task ?
I know how to make the future commits look as expected.
//Jacob
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