Mike Griffin

Have you ever started a git repository and made some commits before realising that you hadn’t set up your email address correctly? I seem to do it too often, especially in work where we have an internal git server. There is a simple way to fix it: git filter-branch

git filter-branch --env-filter "export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL='<correct email address>'" HEAD

This will change all the author email addresses to the same address. This may or may not be what you want to do. If you want to only change ones that match another address, you can do this:

git filter-branch --env-filter "
  if [ $GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL = '<wrong email address>' ];
  then
    export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL='<correct email address>'
  fi
" HEAD

If you’ve already pushed to a remote server, you will probably have to force a push to get it to accept it. If anyone else has pulled from this repository, then there might be problems.