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I've used a perl script to modify all tab characters in a php git repository and changed them all to 4 spaces. $ find -iname \*.php -exec perl -pi -e "s/\t/ /g" {} \ I can commit this change with git commit , but it will mark me as the author of all changed lines inside git blame after this commit is made. Is there any way to commit this massive change that doesn't mark me as the author of the changed lines, but retains the original author? That's a lot of history we don't really want to lose in our project. Our purpose in replacing tabs with 4 spaces is not to make things appear different in

I have a Git repo that I have deleted four files from using rm ( not git rm ), and my Git status looks like this: # deleted: file1.txt # deleted: file2.txt # deleted: file3.txt # deleted: file4.txt How do I remove these files from Git without having to manually go through and add each file like this: git rm file1 file2 file3 file4 Ideally, I'm looking for something that works in the same way that git add . does, if that's possible. For Git 1.x $ git add -u This tells git to automatically stage tracked files -- including deleting the previously tracked files. For Git 2.0 To stage your whole

In my local repo I have one commit with an incorrect commit message. I've already published the incorrect commit message with git push . Now the remote repo (which is GitHub-hosted) has the incorrect commit message, too. I've already tried git commit --amend , but found that it will not work for me in this situation because I've made additional commits since the incorrect one. How would you fix this situation? Dan Moulding Easiest solution ( but please read this whole answer before doing this ): git rebase -i <hash-of-commit-preceding-the-incorrect-one> In the editor that opens, change pick to

I'm looking at a git hook which looks for print statements in Python code. If a print statement is found, it prevents the git commit. I want to override this hook and I was told that there is a command to do so. I haven't been able to find it. Any thoughts? Maybe (from git commit man page ): git commit --no-verify -n --no-verify This option bypasses the pre-commit and commit-msg hooks. See also githooks(5) . As commented by Blaise , -n can have a different role for certain commands. For instance, git push -n is actually a dry-run push. Only git push --no-verify would skip the hook. Note: Git 2

Say I have a file foo.js that was committed some time ago. I would like to simply find the commit where this file was first added. After reading the answers and my own tinkering, this works for me git log --follow --diff-filter=A --find-renames=40% foo.js stelterd Here's simpler, "pure Git" way to do it, with no pipeline needed: git log --diff-filter=A -- foo.js Check the documentation. You can do the same thing for Deleted, Modified, etc. https://git-scm.com/docs/git-log#Documentation/git-log.txt---diff-filterACDMRTUXB82308203 I have a handy alias for this, because I always forget it: git