Change Git Author Information in Visual Studio

Question

I have a team project in Visual Studio Team Services and I'm using git as a version control system.

Is it possible to change the author name and email of the commits in Visual Studio website ?

Answer 1

Your author name and email address is bound to your commits and mostly taken from your global Git settings, not your VSTS account. Change your display info through Team Explorer > Settings > Repository Settings.

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In case you want to change it through Git shell:

To set your username for a specific repository, enter the following command in the root folder of your repository:

git config user.name "Billy Everyteen"
# Set a new name
git config user.name
# Verify the setting
Billy Everyteen

Source

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EDIT: Just noticed you're talking about existing commits, take a look at Change commit author at one specific commit.