From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail•com>
To: "Stephen Sinclair" <radarsat1@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Retroactively change email signature?
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:17:00 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ejczordw.fsf@roke.D-201> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9b3e2dc20801021237v4d5d236fn3d2643502b9bb78f@mail.gmail.com>
"Stephen Sinclair" <radarsat1@gmail•com> writes:
> I imagine that changing old commits is considered one of the great
> evils of source control, but I have a small problem:
> I have a habit of testing my code on several different computers and
> operating systems. Sometimes when setting up a new computer for
> testing (and thus, for development, since testing always results in a
> few commits), I have forgotten to use git-config to configure my name
> and email address.
>
> Since git doesn't warn when I've forgotten to do this, my git-log is
> now sprinkled with various email addresses, some which are just my
> username@hostname. This is completely useless to people who might
> view my public repository.
This most certainly should get addressed IMHO.
> Is it possible to retroactively change the author and email of several
> commits? Perhaps some sort of search-and-replace for the commit
> metadata? Even for older commits, I'd like to change the email
> addresses to my current address.
>
> If it's not possible it's not the end of the world, but I thought it
> wouldn't hurt to ask.
You can use git-filter-branch(1), but please remember that it is
practically rewriting whole repository, so you should do this _before_
you publish any changes.
--
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-02 21:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-02 20:37 Retroactively change email signature? Stephen Sinclair
2008-01-02 21:17 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2008-01-02 21:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-02 22:06 ` Stephen Sinclair
2008-01-03 0:53 ` David Brown
2008-01-03 5:52 ` Retroactively change email signature? [resend] Sam Vilain
2008-01-04 18:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-04 23:04 ` Sam Vilain
2008-01-04 23:08 ` Sam Vilain
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