"you were always a girl" (or "you were always a guy" if that fits better)
This is a tool for retroactively replacing an old name in git commits.
I wrote this for use on my personal repos; you should not apply this on repos where other people have forked them, since you're rewriting history and that breaks their pulls and that's rude.
ywaag.sh -o "Old Name" -g "git@github.com:username/repo.git"
This will:
- fetch the repo
- run
git filter-branchto make corrections - push the updated repo
New name and e-mail can also be specified on command line; otherwise we use whatever is now configured in your global git config.
Note that this uses git filter-branch under the hood, and that can be
slow and has a whole bunch of other caveats.
It worked well enough for my purposes (a set of personal repos with low
numbers of commits with me as main/only contributor) but if this breaks
your repos you get to keep all the pieces.