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. Change commit author name & email by Amend, then replacing old-commit with new-one:

   $ git checkout                             # checkout to the commit need to modify  
   $ git commit --amend --author "name " # change the author name and email
   
   $ git replace        # replace the old commit by new one
   $ git filter-branch -- --all                           # rewrite all futures commits based on the replacement                   
   
   $ git replace -d      # remove the replacement for cleanliness 
   $ git push -f origin HEAD              # force push 
   

2. Another way Rebasing:

   $ git rebase -i       # back to last good commit
   
   # Editor would open, replace 'pick' with 'edit' before the commit want to change author
   
   $ git commit --amend --author="author name "  # change the author name & email
   
   # Save changes and exit the editor
   
   $ git rebase --continue                # finish the rebase