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user4695271
user4695271

Reputation:

Reset commits on a given branch to author's info (e-mail, date, etc.)

I tend to amend and rebase a lot since I do small commits and usually group (read: squash) them in the end to have a coherent (like in nice) history.

Being said that, I would like to have the same info from author and committer for every commit in a given branch, so I was wondering if there was a way to do this "natively" with Git.

Basically, what I'm looking for is:

In that way, the committer's info is the same as the author's info — because nothing else changes for my case, except the dates.

I know can do this interactively, but I was wondering if there was a Git-fu command that would let me do such thing.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 49

Answers (1)

jthill
jthill

Reputation: 60255

Filter-branch supplies the standard utility functions (from libexec/git-core/git-sh-setup) to the filters you run, so

git filter-branch \
        --setup 'eval `get_author_ident_from_commit thatcommit`
                 targetname=$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME
                 targetemail=$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL
        ' \
        --env-filter '
                 GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=$targetname
                 GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=$targetemail
                 GIT_COMMITTER_NAME=$targetname
                 GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL=$targetemail
        ' \
        --tag-name-filter cat \
        -- master..

To do this with belt-and-suspenders, do it in a scratch clone:

git clone -ns --mirror . `mktemp -d`; cd $_
# the above filter-branch
# if everything looks good, 
git push origin HEAD
cd -

Upvotes: 1

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