How to change commit author on gitlab?

Question

I making project for my friend but after few commits i see the problem. I thinked if im log in on his account it will be created like him. But it was created my other author(me). Can i change this on gitlab ? If is options to change it without changing data commits.

Answer 1

Yes you can. Clone the repo locally, then use filter branch

 git filter-branch --commit-filter 'if [ "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME" = "John Doe" ];
  then export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="My Friend"; export [email protected];
  fi; git commit-tree "$@"'