Git: How do you amend the author of a previous commit?

[rkotze]

Using Git how do you amend the author of the latest commit?
Mistakes happen, this will be good to know.

Also, how would you amend the second or third commits?

[rkotze]

Amend author for the latest commit:

git commit --amend --no-edit --author="John Doe <[email protected]>"

Amend author of older commit messages using git rebase -i interactive mode. Provide a commit hash of the last good commit and then when the commit list shown in the editor change "pick" to "edit" for commits you want to change.

Step through each commit running the "--amend" flag followed by rebase continue. Repeat til done.

git rebase -i -p <commit_hash>

git commit --amend --no-edit --author="John Doe <[email protected]>"
git rebase --continue