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I have a team project in Visual Studio Team Services and I'm using git as a version control system.

Is it possible to change the author name and email of the commits in Visual Studio website ?

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  • Talking about pure git, the answer is "yes". If it's many revisions, you might consider using git filter-branch to do it. If it's only a few revisions, you might consider amending them (and cherry-pick whatever was on top of them). https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Rewriting-History – eftshift0 Mar 27 '17 at 14:31
  • I know how to do that for local git projects. But I want to do it in visualstudio.com because my project is hosted there. I couldn't find any option in the website for changing the author information. – Mohammed Mar 27 '17 at 14:35
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    Can't do the change locally and then use ```git push -f``` to force whatever you have locally to replace the remote content? – eftshift0 Mar 27 '17 at 14:36
  • @Edmundo It worked. Thanks! – Mohammed Mar 28 '17 at 04:12

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Your author name and email address is bound to your commits and mostly taken from your global Git settings, not your VSTS account. Change your display info through Team Explorer > Settings > Repository Settings.

Git name and email

In case you want to change it through Git shell:

To set your username for a specific repository, enter the following command in the root folder of your repository:

git config user.name "Billy Everyteen"
# Set a new name
git config user.name
# Verify the setting
Billy Everyteen

Source

EDIT: Just noticed you're talking about existing commits, take a look at Change commit author at one specific commit.

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