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 the only user of this repo or you don't care about possibly breaking the repo for other users, then yes. If you've pushed these commits and they exist where somewhere else can access them, then no, unless you don't care about breaking other people's repos. The problem is by changing these commits you will be generating new SHAs which will cause them to be treated as different commits. When someone else tries to pull in these changed commits, the history is different and kaboom.

This page http://inputvalidation.blogspot.com/2008/08/how-to-change-git-commit-author.html describes how to do it. (I haven't tried this so YMMV)