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

1. run git rebase -i

2. mark all commits that you want to change with edit (or e)

3. loop the following two commands until you have processed all the commits:

   git commit --amend --reuse-message=HEAD --author="New Author " ; git rebase --continue

This will keep all the other commit information (including the dates). The --reuse-message=HEAD option prevents the message editor from launching.