author-modifier.sh is a shell script that allows you to batch change the author name and email of commits in a Git repository. This script can operate on specific branches or all branches and can change specific author information or all author information.

• Change specific author names and emails
• Change all author names and emails
• Operate on specific branches or all branches
• Execute in a specified directory

• Unix-like system (Linux, macOS) or Windows (can be run using WSL)

• Git must be installed

• git-filter-repo must be installed. You can install it using:

  pip install git-filter-repo

  Or follow the installation instructions at: https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jaeyeopme/author-modifier/main/author-modifier.sh

./author-modifier.sh --old-name="old_name" --old-email="[email protected]" --new-name="new_name" --new-email="[email protected]" --branch="branch_name" [path_to_repository]

• --new-name - New author name to set. Required if --new-email is not provided.
• --new-email - New author email to set. Required if --new-name is not provided.
• --old-name - Old author name to replace. Default: '*' (matches all names).
• --old-email - Old author email to replace. Default: '*' (matches all emails).
• --branch - Git branch to modify. Default: '*' (processes all branches).
• [path_to_repository] - Path to the Git repository. Default: current directory.

git push --set-upstream origin branch_name --force

• Change all author names and emails in all branches of the specified repository:

./author-modifier.sh --new-name="new_name" --new-email="[email protected]" /path/to/repository

• Change specific author name and email in a specific branch:

./author-modifier.sh --new-name="new_name" --new-email="[email protected]" --old-name="old_name" --old-email="[email protected]" --branch="branch_name" /path/to/repository