delete first git commit

Question

I made a mistake when I first committed. I'm on another person's computer and pushed a version with their user.name instead of mine. How can I delete this?

Answer 1

You can just force-push a repository containing the initial commit you want to Github using git push --force.

Answer 2

There are a lot of duplicate questions related to this. The following is a generic solution for replacing the first commit of your tree. After you perform this step, you can make any other changes using git rebase -i.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/645450/git-how-to-insert-a-commit-as-the-first-shifting-all-the-others