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

I found the presented versions way to aggressive, especially if you commit patches from other developers, this will essentially steal their code.

The version below does work on all branches and changes the author and comitter separately to prevent that.

Kudos to leif81 for the all option.

#!/bin/bash

git filter-branch --env-filter '
if [ "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME" = "" ];
then
    GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="";
    GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="";
fi
if [ "$GIT_COMMITTER_NAME" = "" ];
then
    GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="";
    GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="";
fi
' -- --all