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Tudvari
Tudvari

Reputation: 2915

I merged a pull request on GitHub and I have to changed that commit's author. How?

I'm working on a university course's task, but sadly I was in a hurry and forgot to change my public name to my real name. Now their algorithm won't be able to pair that merge with me.

Now I changed my GitHub public name on my profile.

How could I change that merge's commit's author name to my real name?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 177

Answers (1)

Joseph Sible-Reinstate Monica
Joseph Sible-Reinstate Monica

Reputation: 48572

Check out the repository, run git commit --amend --author='"Your Name" <[email protected]>', and then run git push -f. The old merge commit will be replaced with a new one with the new author information. This assumes that no other commits have been made since that merge; if this is not the case, then you'll have to merge/rebase all of them after your new merge commit.

Upvotes: 2

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