Anyone know an easy way in git to change the author/email of all commits by a specific author in a remote repo without changing the commit hashes themselves?

Submitted by hollyhoppet at April 25, 2018, 11:09 PM in programming (edited at April 25, 2018, 11:25 PM)

I want to make the jstpst repo public but I need to remove stuff that references my full name first.

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hollyhoppet wrote at April 25, 2018, 11:26 PM

it may come as a surprise but "Hoppet" is not my real surname

voxpoplar wrote at April 25, 2018, 11:38 PM

what the FUCK

emma wrote at April 26, 2018, 12:10 AM (edited at April 26, 2018, 12:13 AM)

It's not possible.

Just rebase the repository and git push --force.

hollyhoppet wrote at April 26, 2018, 2:24 AM

never give up, never surrender

hollyhoppet wrote at April 26, 2018, 12:32 AM

Alright, found a script that github provides that should do the trick

Moonside wrote at April 26, 2018, 5:07 PM

It's a real design oversight that in Git that a person's name is considered immutable. Like do these people know how people even work?

hollyhoppet wrote at April 26, 2018, 5:40 PM

But it is mutable? After doing some research, I've found you can change it just like you can change a commit message using ammend or filter-branch. I guess you could say it's a design oversight that there's no author object spanning commits, but that's an engineering problem that comes with its own headaches, and filter-branch will let you change the commit history alright.