Change previous commits author/email with filter-branch

git-change-author

## Make sure your local repo settings are correct
git config --local --list
git config --local user.name "author name" 
git config --local user.email "[email protected]"

## Change previous n commits
git rebase -i HEAD~n
# choose the commits to change by adding 'pick' or 'reword' (only for changing the message)
git commit --amend --author="Author Name <[email protected]>"
# change first commit in repo
git rebase -i --root
# change date of commit to now (maintaining author)
git commit --amend --date="$(date -R)"
# change date and author of commit
git commit --amend --reset-author 

## Change all commits with --commit-filter. If your local config was wrong
git filter-branch --commit-filter 'if [ "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME" = "your previous name" ];
  then export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="your New Name"; export [email protected];
  export GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="your New Name"; export [email protected]
  fi; git commit-tree "$@"'

the last command is so powerful ! thanks for the gist