Replace an user from the repo.

I've had so many headaches about authors and committers, that finally I managed to built this script.

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##Installation

Download and symlink to your path

$ git clone https://github.com/albfan/git-changemail 
$ cd git-changemail
$ ln -s $PWD/git-changemail ~/bin/

git changemail or git changemail -h must show you how to use it

Change author matchings on current branch

$ git changemail -a [email protected] -n newname -m [email protected]

Change author and committer matchings on <branch> and <branch2>. Pass -f to filter-branch to allow rewriting backups

$ git changemail -b [email protected] -n newname -m [email protected] -- -f <branch> <branch2>

Show existing users on repo

$ git changemail --show-both

• Consider to use git-backup-clean as git-change-mail uses filter-branch to operate and that lefts a backup on refs/original/refs/heads/master

• if everything goes wrong issue:

  $ git reset --hard refs/original/refs/heads/master

Also remember git reflog is your friend