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Šimon Tóth
Šimon Tóth

Reputation: 36433

Mass rewrite commits

I'm cleaning up a middle sized repository for a public release.

One of the issues is that although all commits are from me, the author and committer differs a lot (I had inconsistent configuration across machines).

Is there an easy way to rewrite this information in the commits?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 100

Answers (2)

Grad van Horck
Grad van Horck

Reputation: 4506

It's possible (although very dangerous), with the filter-branch command.

An example is described in the Pro Git book: http://progit.org/book/ch6-4.html (see the last paragraph at the bottom of the page).

But again: we very cautious, because you're rewriting history and commits (and thus sha1 hashes)....

Upvotes: 4

p4010
p4010

Reputation: 943

I couldn't find any easy way to do so, but I would also be surprised if it would be possible: this kind of information (author, message, notes), in fact, is part of the bunch of bytes used to calculate the SHA-1 signature of each commit. This means that, changing these info on any but the least commit, will move you on a new branch, and this is not what you want, I suppose.

Upvotes: -1

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