How to reset author of earlier commit?

Question

My local commits have wrong email so I used the following command to reset it. However, it only reset the latest local commit. How to reset the earlier ones?

git commit --amend --reset-author --no-edit

Maybe just try to checkout earlier (or any other that you want to amend) commit and then execute this. — ulou, Oct 14 '20 at 16:54

score 11 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 14 '20 at 16:57

Assuming you have a linear history, you can reset the authorship of all commits with

git rebase -i --exec 'git commit --amend --reset-author --no-edit' --root

If only a subset of commits is affected, which still must be all in a linear history, replace --root with the commit ID before the first one of yours.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 14 '20 at 16:53

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Do (you may need to increase/decrease 20 according to how far back the commit you want to edit is):

git rebase -i HEAD~20

and, for the commit you want to amend, replace pick with edit (in the interactive window). Save, and close.

Then, do git commit --amend, make your change, and let the rebase continue.

answered Oct 14 '20 at 16:53

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I have two commits and so I just need to amend the first one now. – ca9163d9 Oct 14 '20 at 16:55
I did `git rebase -i HEAD~2` and now it stays in my previous commit. How to rebase back to my latest commit? – ca9163d9 Oct 14 '20 at 17:20
did you finish the rebase? – ignoring_gravity Oct 14 '20 at 17:45

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