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Change Committer Email on a git repository
# name an email address in all old commits.
# WARNING: Will change all your commit SHA1s.
# Based off of the script from here:
# http://coffee.geek.nz/how-change-author-git.html
git filter-branch -f --commit-filter '
if [ "$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL" = "<OLDMAIL>" ];
then
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="<NEWMAIL>";
git commit-tree "$@";
else
git commit-tree "$@";
fi' HEAD
git push --force
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