Git commit that doesn't override original authors in git blame

Question

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/\         


        

Answer 1

Thanks to wnoise on git: change styling (whitespace) without changing ownership/blame?, I came up with this to run an arbitrary filter on git history, so using this you could rewrite history to make it look like offending whitespace or other issues were never committed, leaving the original authors in tact but your code cleaned up: git filter-branch --tree-filter 'git diff-tree --name-only --diff-filter=AM -r --no-commit-id $GIT_COMMIT | php cleanup.php' HEAD