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

In furtherance to Eugen Konkov answer, to start from the root commit, use --root flag. The --no-edit flag is helpful too, because with it you are not prompted into an editor for each commit.

git rebase --root --exec "git commit --amend --author='name ' --no-edit"