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Created March 7, 2009 01:47
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Renaming author history in git
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rename-authors.sh
#!/bin/sh
git filter-branch -d `mktemp -d -u -t git-filter` --env-filter \
'
export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL GIT_COMMITTER_NAME GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL;
GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=`echo $GIT_AUTHOR_NAME | sed -e "s/adamsc/Chris Adams/g"`;
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=`echo $GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL | sed -e "s/adamsc@.*/[email protected]/g"`;
GIT_COMMITTER_NAME=`echo $GIT_COMMITTER_NAME | sed -e "s/adamsc/Chris Adams/g"`;
GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL=`echo $GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL | sed -e "s/adamsc@.*/[email protected]/g"`;
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