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 want to add my Example too. I want to create a bash_function with given parameter.

this works in mint-linux-17.3

# $1 => email to change, $2 => new_name, $3 => new E-Mail

function git_change_user_config_for_commit {

 # defaults
 WRONG_EMAIL=${1:-"you_wrong_mail@hello.world"}
 NEW_NAME=${2:-"your name"}
 NEW_EMAIL=${3:-"new_mail@hello.world"}

 git filter-branch -f --env-filter "
  if [ \$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL = '$WRONG_EMAIL' ]; then
    export GIT_COMMITTER_NAME='$NEW_NAME'
    export GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL='$NEW_EMAIL'
  fi
  if [ \$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL = '$WRONG_EMAIL' ]; then
    export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='$NEW_NAME'
    export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL='$NEW_EMAIL'
  fi
 " --tag-name-filter cat -- --branches --tags;
}