A CLI tool to anonymize your GitHub identity in Git repositories.
- Rewrite Git commit history to replace author name and email
- Uses git-filter-repo under the hood for efficient history rewriting
- Simple CLI interface
- Can process multiple repositories at once
cargo install --path .
This tool relies on git-filter-repo, which needs to be installed separately:
pip install git-filter-repo
ghanon --old-name "Real Name" --old-email "real@email.com" --new-name "Alias" --new-email "alias@example.com" [--path /path/to/repository] [--recursive]
Options:
--old-name: Your current name in Git commits--old-email: Your current email in Git commits--new-name: The anonymized name to use--new-email: The anonymized email to use--path: Directory containing repositories to process (defaults to current directory)--recursive, -r: Recursively process Git repositories in subdirectories
Process the current repository:
ghanon --old-name "John Doe" --old-email "john.doe@example.com" --new-name "Anonymous" --new-email "anon@example.com"
Process a specific repository:
ghanon --old-name "John Doe" --old-email "john.doe@example.com" --new-name "Anonymous" --new-email "anon@example.com" --path /path/to/repo
Process all repositories in a directory:
ghanon --old-name "John Doe" --old-email "john.doe@example.com" --new-name "Anonymous" --new-email "anon@example.com" --path /path/to/projects --recursive
This tool rewrites Git history, which is a destructive operation. Always make backups before using it. After rewriting history, you will need to force push to any remote repositories.
MIT