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Created May 2, 2016 20:11
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Change author for commits in range
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change_author.sh
#!/bin/bash
TARGET_GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="username"
TARGET_GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="[email protected]"
TARGET_GIT_COMMIT_SHA1_HASH="a1808eedadf1a8ecfa56d6a6625fe3c59d648315"
git filter-branch --commit-filter 'if [ "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME" = "$TARGET_GIT_AUTHOR_NAME" ];
then export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="$TARGET_GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"; export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="$TARGET_GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL";
fi; git commit-tree "$@"' $TARGET_GIT_COMMIT_SHA1_HASH..HEAD
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