Change Author Info and Remove Text from Git Repository History

How many people out there have changed their Git config once? Twice? New email address, change of username, straighten out the mess by filtering the git branch history.

git clone --bare https://hostname/user/repo.git cd repo.git

filter-branch.sh:

#!/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

Did you leak a password or other sensitive info when committing code? After you update the mistake it is still in the history. Use git filter-repo to remove or replace embarrassing commits.

expressions.txt:

literal:originalpassword==>newpassword
string to replace

Will be replace with ** Removed ** unless provided ==>

git filter-repo --force --replace-text ../expressions.txt

git push origin --force 'refs/heads/*'