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

If you are using Eclipse with EGit, then there is a quite easy solution.
Assumption: you have commits in a local branch 'local_master_user_x' which cannot be pushed to a remote branch 'master' because of the invalid user.

1. Checkout the remote branch 'master'
2. Select the projects/folders/files for which 'local_master_user_x' contains changes
3. Right-click - Replace with - Branch - 'local_master_user_x'
4. Commit these changes again, this time as the correct user and into the local branch 'master'
5. Push to remote 'master'