Goes through a git projects history and changes the name on commits. I needed this after changing my name, and coming out as transgender in order to have my name show up correctly to the public.

gitnamechange.sh

# Goes through a git projects history and changes the name on commits
# I needed this after changing my name, and coming out as transgender
# in order to have my name show up correctly to the public.

git filter-branch --commit-filter '
        if [ "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME" = "Existing Dead Name" ];
        then
                GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="Authentic Name";
                GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="[email protected]";
                git commit-tree "$@";
        else
                git commit-tree "$@";
        fi' HEAD