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I have rebased a branch and now all its commits have committer section which I would like to remove completely (not just changing it's fields). Is it possible without losing the original author info?
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If you commit sensitive data, such as a password or SSH key into a Git repository, you can remove it from the history. To entirely remove unwanted files from a repository's history you can use either the git filter-repo tool or the BFG Repo-Cleaner open source tool.
Using Rebase This will change both the committer and the author to your user.name / user. email configuration. If you did not want to change that config, you can use --author "New Author Name <[email protected]>" instead of --reset-author . Note that doing so will not update the committer -- just the author.
Thanks to @sergej and GitHub, I got committer info removed with
git filter-branch --env-filter '
if [ "$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL" != "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL" ]; then
export GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
export GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"
export GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="$GIT_AUTHOR_DATE"
fi
' --tag-name-filter cat -- --branches --tags
You have to rewrite the history.
GitHub has a script that does that, see Changing author info.
It should be straight forward to adopt it to your needs:
#!/bin/sh
git filter-branch --env-filter '
OLD_EMAIL="[email protected]"
CORRECT_NAME="Your Correct Name"
CORRECT_EMAIL="[email protected]"
if [ "$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL" = "$OLD_EMAIL" ]
then
export GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$CORRECT_NAME"
export GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="$CORRECT_EMAIL"
fi
if [ "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL" = "$OLD_EMAIL" ]
then
export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="$CORRECT_NAME"
export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="$CORRECT_EMAIL"
fi
' --tag-name-filter cat -- --branches --tags
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