How to change commit author for multiple commits using filter branch?

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Actually, a better practice is to:

You can instead used right now its possible successor: newren/git-filter-repo (in Python), and its example section:

cd repo
git filter-repo --mailmap my-mailmap

with my-mailmap:

Correct Name <[email protected]> <[email protected]>

That would replace the author name and email of any commit done by anyone with <[email protected]>

See git mailmap for the exact syntax of that mapping file.

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