Have you ever accidentally committed to a git repository with a broken user config? No? But your co-workers have?
So, you're stuck with commits like this:
Author: root <root@localhost>
Hotfix on the production server. This was urgent!
Nasty. Or:
Author: John Doe <john@localhost>
Fixed bug #1. Committed on my laptop.
Would it be nice to rewrite history? And take care of committers, as well as of authors? Without all the hassle? Now, you can!
Usage:
$ git rewrite-author -w "John Doe <john@localhost>" "John Doe <dearjohn@example.com>"
Then, to push your changes to the default remote:
$ git push --force
Not using --force may duplicate the commits on origin, not replace them, so be careful with that.
You're not sure which authors/committers are hidden in your repository? What about:
$ git rewrite-author -l
Tags are rewritten automagically, too!
After you've checked everything is okay, you may wish to remove the original refs backed up by git --filter-branch:
$ git for-each-ref --format="%(refname)" refs/original/ | xargs -r -n 1 git update-ref -d
Enjoy!
Clone or download this repository and run:
$ python setup.py install