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Created June 29, 2015 22:09
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Goes through a git projects history and changes the name on commits. I needed this after changing my name, and coming out as transgender in order to have my name show up correctly to the public.
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gitnamechange.sh
# Goes through a git projects history and changes the name on commits
# I needed this after changing my name, and coming out as transgender
# in order to have my name show up correctly to the public.
git filter-branch --commit-filter '
if [ "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME" = "Existing Dead Name" ];
then
GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="Authentic Name";
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="your@email.com";
git commit-tree "$@";
else
git commit-tree "$@";
fi' HEAD
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