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You can use an environment filter to change the author of commits. Just modify and export $GIT_AUTHOR_NAME in the script to change who authored the commit. Create a file filter.sh with contents like so: if [ "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME" = "Author to Change From" ] then export GIT_A...

This command, given a commit range commit1..commit2, rewrites history so that git commit author becomes also git committer: git filter-branch -f --commit-filter \ 'export GIT_COMMITTER_NAME=\"$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME\"; export GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL=\"$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL\"; exp...