So I read a lot about how to change previous commit's email address but for some reason mine is not updating.
I did like 40 commits to my private repo with my local email ([email protected]) which is bad since this email is not associated(and it can't be) with github.
I then remembered that I needed to set the git.config before and so I did:
git config user.email "[email protected]"
and did a test commit and it worked perfectly.
Is there a way I can revert all my previous commits to this new email?
I read this question on SO Change the author and committer name and e-mail of multiple commits in Git and used this
git filter-branch -f --env-filter "
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL='[email protected]';
GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL='[email protected]';
"
HEAD
But it DID NOT work... I can still see the email of my previous commits with the .patch extension as the .local email address
You can indeed do his for many commits at once like this:
git rebase -i HEAD~40 -x "git commit --amend --author 'Author Name <[email protected]>' --no-edit"
I worked this out better in this answer.