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git-changemail

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git-changemail

Replace an user from the repo.

Background

I've had so many headaches about authors and committers, that finally I managed to built this script.

read this for real stories about people collaborating on git.

Installation

Download and symlink to your path

$ git clone https://github.com/albfan/git-changemail 
$ cd git-changemail
$ ln -s $PWD/git-changemail ~/bin/

Usage

git changemail or git changemail -h must show you how to use it

Examples

Change author matchings on current branch

$ git changemail -a old@email.com -n newname -m new@email.com

Change author and committer matchings on <branch> and <branch2>. Pass -f to filter-branch to allow rewriting backups

$ git changemail -b old@email.com -n newname -m new@email.com -- -f <branch> <branch2>

Show existing users on repo

$ git changemail --show-both

Tips

  • Consider to use git-backup-clean as git-change-mail uses filter-branch to operate and that lefts a backup on refs/original/refs/heads/master

  • if everything goes wrong issue:

    $ git reset --hard refs/original/refs/heads/master

Also remember git reflog is your friend

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