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Changing author info (email and name) in Git repository.md

Change author info for all commits (sledgehammer approach)

Copy/paste into a command line:

git filter-branch --commit-filter '
  GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="Your Name";
  GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="Your Name";
  GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="[email protected]";
  GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="[email protected]";
  git commit-tree "$@";
' HEAD

Note: for more info and fine grane control check out Github's article: https://help.github.com/en/github/using-git/changing-author-info