I was writing a simple script in the school computer, and commiting the changes to git (in a repo that was in my pendrive, cloned from my computer at home). After several commits I realized I was commiting stuff as root.
Is there any way to change the author of these commits to my name?
Changing the author (or committer) would require re-writing all of the history. If you're okay with that and think it's worth it then you should check out git filter-branch. The man page includes several examples to get you started. Also note that you can use environment variables to change the name of the author, committer, dates, etc. -- see the "Environment Variables" section of the git man page.
One liner:
git-filter-branch --env-filter "export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='New name'; export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL='New email'" HEAD
As demonstrated here, you can also do:
git filter-branch --commit-filter '
if [ "$GIT_COMMITTER_NAME" = "<Old Name>" ];
then
GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="<New Name>";
GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="<New Name>";
GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="<New Email>";
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="<New Email>";
git commit-tree "$@";
else
git commit-tree "$@";
fi' HEAD
You could do git rebase -i <some HEAD before all of your bad commits>. Then mark all of your bad commits as "edit" in the rebase file, and when git asks you to amend each commit, do git commit --amend --author="<new author, in "Author Name <[email protected]>" format>, edit or just close the editor that opens, and then do git rebase --continue to continue the rebase.
I don't know if there is a more streamlined way to do this with multiple commits.
For a single commit:
git commit --amend --author="<new author, in "Author Name <[email protected]>" format>"
(extracted from asmeurer's answer)
Github has a nice solution, which is the following shell script:
#!/bin/sh
git filter-branch --env-filter '
an="$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
am="$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"
cn="$GIT_COMMITTER_NAME"
cm="$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL"
if [ "$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL" = "[email protected]" ]
then
cn="Your New Committer Name"
cm="Your New Committer Email"
fi
if [ "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL" = "[email protected]" ]
then
an="Your New Author Name"
am="Your New Author Email"
fi
export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="$an"
export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="$am"
export GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$cn"
export GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="$cm"
'