How to change the commit author for one specific commit?

Question

I want to change the author of one specific commit in the history. It\'s not the last commit.

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Answer 1

Github documentation contains a script that replaces the committer info for all commits in a branch.

• Run the following script from terminal after changing the variable values

  #!/bin/sh
  
  git filter-branch --env-filter '
  
  OLD_EMAIL="your-old-email@example.com"
  CORRECT_NAME="Your Correct Name"
  CORRECT_EMAIL="your-correct-email@example.com"
  
  if [ "$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL" = "$OLD_EMAIL" ]
  then
      export GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$CORRECT_NAME"
      export GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="$CORRECT_EMAIL"
  fi
  if [ "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL" = "$OLD_EMAIL" ]
  then
      export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="$CORRECT_NAME"
      export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="$CORRECT_EMAIL"
  fi
  ' --tag-name-filter cat -- --branches --tags
  

• Push the corrected history to GitHub:

  git push --force --tags origin 'refs/heads/*'
  

  OR if you like to push selected references of the branches then use

  git push --force --tags origin 'refs/heads/develop'