Change the author information (name and email) for historical git commits

author_info_changer.sh

#!/bin/sh

git filter-branch --env-filter '
OLD_EMAIL="jingli@example.com"
CORRECT_NAME="Jing Li"
CORRECT_EMAIL="thyrlian@gmail.com"
if [ "$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL" = "$OLD_EMAIL" ]
then
    export GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$CORRECT_NAME"
    export GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="$CORRECT_EMAIL"
fi
if [ "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL" = "$OLD_EMAIL" ]
then
    export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="$CORRECT_NAME"
    export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="$CORRECT_EMAIL"
fi
' --tag-name-filter cat -- --branches --tags