fix git commit with wrong email address in git config, before pushing

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If:

- you add and commit with the wrong email address in git, and
- your remote has a hook set up to prevent you from pushing with the bad address

Then you need to amend the author of your commit before push can succeed:

1. fix your email address in git config:

$ git config user.name "Your Name"
$ git config user.email "[email protected]"

# only do this next line if using submodules... not super common and you would probably know if you were using them
$ git submodule foreach --recursive 'git config user.name "Your Name" && git config user.email "[email protected]"'

2. then do a rebase:

$ git rebase -i HEAD~1

# git brings up your editor.

3. in the editor, mark the commit as 'edit' then save and exit the editor

4. do an amend that resets the author now that your address is changed:

$ git commit --amend --reset-author

5. finish with a rebase:

$ git rebase --continue

# git says:
# Successfully rebased and updated refs/heads/master.

Nice explanation, thanks a tonnn!

What if after pushing successfully, you found out it was wrong email, how do I lik it back? Would the above description also work for it?
Thanks

Yes, it would if you have push --force privilege. Just do everything stated above and than do git push --force.

Thanks

Appreciate for saving my life ❤️

Thank You ! 👼

thanks, this was exactly what I needed lol

Thanks 👍

Thanks for this! Please note, when you issue git commit --amend --reset-author, you can add the --no-edit flag to keep the old commit message:
git commit --amend --reset-author --no-edit
You can also chain it with continue if you had multiple commits:
git commit --amend --reset-author --no-edit && git rebase --continue