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Created October 22, 2019 13:04
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Update Git author info.
#!/usr/bin/env sh
# From: https://help.github.com/en/github/using-git/changing-author-info
git filter-branch --env-filter '
OLD_EMAIL="[email protected]"
CORRECT_NAME="James Benner"
CORRECT_EMAIL="[email protected]"
if [ "$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL" = "$OLD_EMAIL" ]
then
export GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$CORRECT_NAME"
export GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="$CORRECT_EMAIL"
fi
if [ "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL" = "$OLD_EMAIL" ]
then
export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="$CORRECT_NAME"
export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="$CORRECT_EMAIL"
fi
' --tag-name-filter cat -- --branches --tags
git push --force --tags origin 'refs/heads/*'
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