How to change the author and committer name and e-mail of multiple commits in Git?

Question

I was writing a simple script in the school computer, and committing the changes to Git (in a repo that was in my pendrive, cloned from my computer at home). After several c

Answer 1

It happens when you do not have a $HOME/.gitconfig initialized. You may fix this as:

git config --global user.name "you name"
git config --global user.email you@domain.com
git commit --amend --reset-author

tested with git version 1.7.5.4