Re: Fixing author/email fields in commit messages

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 19, 2006, 19:27 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0602192025170.11855@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <43F8BCB1.2010701@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Sun, 19 Feb 2006, Jacob Kroon wrote:

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> 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 ?

Unfortunately not.

However, I'd rather start by enhancing git-rebase. You do not really need to rewrite *all* objects, but only the *commit objects*. Two things seem to be lacking for what you want:

	- an option to rebase "onto an empty commit", and
	- an optional filter command to run on the commit messages.

Hth, Dscho