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Change the git author in all the commits with a certain filter
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git_change_author.sh
# Author: Samy Coenen
# Company: Gluo NV
git filter-branch --commit-filter 'if [ "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME" = "old_author" ];
then export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="New Name"; export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=new_email@example.com;
fi; git commit-tree "$@"'
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