Easily change the author of multiple git commits

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Easily change the author of multiple git commits

If you need to standardise your commit author or just force new commits to trigger gpg-gigning this one-liner should do the job.

Some days you realise you messed up user.name or user.email in your commit history.

Or maybe you just want to commit a fresh bunch of commits to trigger gpg signing.

This is the easiest method I know.

Combining rebase’s --interactive and --exec options makes this really quick and easy.

Based on this StackOverflow:

# file: "run this in a terminal"
# change 'origin/master' to whichever SHA suits your needs
git rebase -i origin/master -x "git commit --amend --reset-author -CHEAD"

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