How do I edit git’s history to correct an incorrect email address/name [closed]

You can go back and fix all your commits with a single call to git filter-branch. This has the same effect as rebase, but you only need to do one command to fix all your history, instead of fixing each commit individually.

You can fix all the wrong emails with this command:

git filter-branch --env-filter '
    oldname="(old name)"
    oldemail="(old email)"
    newname="(new name)"
    newemail="(new email)"
    [ "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"="$oldemail" ] && GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="$newemail"
    [ "$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL"="$oldemail" ] && GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="$newemail"
    [ "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"="$oldname" ] && GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="$newname"
    [ "$GIT_COMMITTER_NAME"="$oldname" ] && GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$newname"
    ' HEAD

More information is available from the git docs

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