git-rewrite-author

git-rewrite-author is a shell tool to manipulate the author and committer git history. You can use this tool to replace a specific git author/committer email with a different one.

For example: You have accidentally committed and pushed something urgent from your production server...

commit 70dbf556b735a7e1729f79b36502829415c037dd
Author: Charly Root <root@localhost>
Date:   Sat Oct 10 18:30:01 2015 +0200

    Applied Security Fix

...and now you see that your git author history is not very tidy anymore. Can this be changed? Of course :-)

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1. Features

• List all current git authors and committers (name and email)
• Search author/committer by email and replace with different name and email
• Show how all commands work (--dry option)

2. Usage

2.1 All options

Usage: git-rewrite-author -l [--dry]
       git-rewrite-author -r <old_email> <new_email> <new_name> [--dry]
       git-rewrite-author -h
       git-rewrite-author -v

 -l       List current authors and committers in git
 -r       Rewrite history from <old_email> to <new_email> and <new_name>
 --dry    (optional) Do not do anything, just print the command.
 -v       Show version information.
 -h       Show this help screen.

2.2 List all authors

$ git-rewrite-author -l
cytopia <[email protected]>

2.3 Replace author

# Rewrite hisstory
$ git-rewrite-author -r "[email protected]" "[email protected]" "Cool Name"

# See who is left in the history
$ git-rewrite-author -l
Cool Name <[email protected]>

3. Installation

You can download git-rewrite-author via git or composer:

# git
git clone -https://github.com/cytopia/git-rewrite-author.git

# composer
composer require cytopia/git-rewrite-author

Afterwards just execute the install.sh, it will simply symlink the file to your home binary directory. So whenever you update the git repository afterwards, the symlink will always point to that version.

$ ./install.sh
Symlink git-rewrite-author to ~/bin? (Y/n)y

4. Contribution

Contributors are welcome.

5. License