Include the Author name as well

[lee-40square]

Sorry, I'm not good enough with Git to offer a PR. However, I wonder if the script could be modified so that it can change the Author name as well as the email?

Thank!

[MichaelCurrin]

Hi this is possible but not straightforward as I need to do a lot of argument parsing to separate email and name and keep the ability to only set email without name.

[MichaelCurrin]

Would you be willing to install and run git filter-repo tool which is similar to git filter-branch which my tool uses?

I worked out some commands for you

[MichaelCurrin]

Install and run the git-filter-repo tool, which is linked from the git-filter-branch official docs as a better replacement.

Examples

Example from their docs, modified here for clarity. Note use of Python code for callbacks.

$ git filter-repo --email-callback '
  return b"new@example.com" if email == b"old@localhost" else email
'

Take that further:

$ git filter-repo --name-callback '
  return b"New name" if name == b"Old name" else name
'

[lee-40square]

Thanks for the effort Michael and thanks for pointing me to this. (and sorry for the late reply).