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Question

my author name in all my commits is coming up as unknown https://github.com/freeenergy/Teacher-Login-Validation-Module

did this

$ git config         


        

Answer 1

In case you did already push your commits with a wrong user, you can rewrite the history using this script from github:

#!/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

Be aware of the effects a history rewrite has! If you are on a private branch you will propably be fine. On branches that are shared with other users you will need to coordinate with every other user and do a fetch on each clone. You need to decide if it's worth the effort. Have a backup!