adamdehaven/change-git-author

Update the commit history of your git repository to resolve incorrect author information.

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change-git-author's Issues

Unable to run on OSX

This is really nice but it doesn't seem to work for me? I'm on the latest OSX version using bash locally for my shell. Nothing fancy going on.

However when I run the script I see a couple different errors depending on how I choose to run it. I'm not a bash expert so I may be overlooking something here. 😁

I confirmed it's marked as executable

repo on  master [$?] via ⬢ v10.18.1 
❯ ls -l
total 1104
-rw-r--r--     1 cbzehner  staff    2514 Nov 10 21:19 README.md
-rwxr-xr-x     1 cbzehner  staff   17805 Nov 10 22:04 changeauthor.sh

Just trying to run it as expected

repo on  master [$?] via ⬢ v10.18.1 
❯ ./changeauthor.sh -o [email protected] -e [email protected]
: No such file or directory

Calling it with bash directly gives a different error

repo on  master [$?] via ⬢ v10.18.1 took 2s 
❯ bash changeauthor.sh 
: command not foundne 2: 
: command not foundne 9: 
: command not foundne 11: 
: command not foundne 24: 
: command not foundne 31: 
: command not foundne 34: 
: command not foundne 36: 
'hangeauthor.sh: line 43: syntax error near unexpected token `in
'hangeauthor.sh: line 43: `  case "$1" in

Change user name only

I my case I had to change the user name while keeping the same email address.
Thus, I have commented the lines checking [ "$USER_OLD_EMAIL" == "$USER_NEW_EMAIL" ] and everything has been successfully renamed. 👍

I think, in interactive mode, the script should warn and ask the user if the intention is actually to change the user name while keeping the same email address.

A command line argument may also be added for that case where only one email address is requested.

You are my hero!! 🥇

Thank you! ❤️

Your script is amazing! works flawlessly!

Repository must have a remote setup to run

Just a quick note for your consideration. I ran changeauthor.sh against a local git repository without any remotes set up and it exited early at the VALID_REMOTES check.

I just commented out that section and proceeded as planned, but I want to bring this up in case you haven't encountered this case before.

change author with space in e-mail

Hello,

first thank you for your script, it fixed some e-mail problemes in my git repo.

But i have one commiter e-mail with a space in it.
e.g. Name @example.com.
If i set the old-email to Name @example.com he takes only Name.
If i set Name\ @example.com he takes the space, but i think the check fails.
USER_OLD_EMAIL_EXISTS="$(git ${USER_GIT_DIR} ${USER_WORK_TREE} log --pretty=format:"%ae" | grep -wxi ${USER_OLD_EMAIL})"

The push is being rejected by the master

The push here is being getting rejected by the remote.

giving me this error

integer expression expected

test on 5.1.8 and 3.2.57 of Bash
foo unset
/bin/bash -c '[ "$foo" -eq 0 ]' will cause the error
work if change -eq to =

Showing 2 timelines in GitHub network graph

Hey, Thanks for creating this useful tool.
I recently used it and saw that it creates new network graph and the old one still persists.
Here is a link to my GitHub repo.
Is there any workaround for this?