Author Modifier

author-modifier.sh is a shell script that allows you to batch change the author name and email of commits in a Git repository. This script can operate on specific branches or all branches and can change specific author information or all author information.

Features

• Change specific author names and emails
• Change all author names and emails
• Operate on specific branches or all branches
• Execute in a specified directory

Usage

Prerequisites

• Unix-like system (Linux, macOS) or Windows (can be run using WSL)
• Git must be installed
• git-filter-repo must be installed.

How to Run

1. Download the author-modifier.sh script.

curl -O https://github.com/jaeyeopme/author-modifier/main/author-modifier.sh

2. Open the command line and navigate to the directory where the script is located.

3. Run the following command to execute the script:

./author-modifier.sh --old-name="old_name" --old-email="old_email@example.com" --new-name="new_name" --new-email="new_email@example.com" --branch="branch_name" [path_to_repository]

4. Options

• --new-name is the new author name.
• --new-email is the new author email.
• --old-name is the current author name. If not specified, all names will be changed.
• --old-email is the current author email. If not specified, all emails will be changed.
• --branch is the branch to be changed. If not specified, all branches will be changed.
• [path_to_repository] is the path to the repository. If not specified, the current directory will be used.

5. Push changes to the remote repository (if needed):

git push --set-upstream origin "branch_name --force

Example

• Change all author names and emails in all branches of the specified repository:

./author-modifier.sh --new-name="new_name" --new-email="new_email@example.com" /path/to/repository

• Change specific author name and email in a specific branch:

./author-modifier.sh --new-name="new_name" --new-email="new_email@example.com" --old-name="old_name" --old-email="old_email@example.com" --branch="branch_name" /path/to/repository