Why "git log" show me path to The Bat instead of an email?

Question

Even though user.mail = [email protected]

In the course githowto the log looks like:

commit 911e8c91caeab8d30ad16d56746cbd6eef72dc4c
Author: Alexander Shvets <[email protected]>
Date:   Wed Mar 9 10:27:54 2011 -0500

First Commit

`user.email`, not `user.mail`. – Biffen Apr 01 '18 at 13:16 — Biffen, Apr 01 '18 at 13:16

VonC · Accepted Answer · 2018-04-01T17:15:33.710

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Just for one commit, as illustrated in "Change commit author at one specific commit", you need:

git commit --amend --author="Author Name <[email protected]>"

And of course, fix your setting:

git config --global user.email [email protected]

(email, not mail, as commented)

If you had more than one commit with the wrong email, you would need a filter-branch as shown here after setting the proper email (git config user.email, as commented)

git change-commits GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL "[email protected]" HEAD~10..HEAD

(assuming here your last 10 commits are incorrect: adapt the number to your case)

Here, this is a simplified alias which forces the new value:

change-commits = "!f() { VAR=$1; NEW=$2; shift 2; git filter-branch --env-filter \"export $VAR='$NEW';" $@; }; f "

In both cases, if you have not pushed yet, that is OK: the amend or filter-branch will rewrite the existing commits, but you will still be able to do a regular push.

edited Apr 01 '18 at 17:15

answered Apr 01 '18 at 13:28

VonC

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`git commit --amend --reset-author` should suffice, given that this is supposedly the first commit. – jsageryd Apr 01 '18 at 17:11
@jsageryd Right. I missed the "first commit" in the question. Let me edit the answer for you to cancel the downvote. – VonC Apr 01 '18 at 17:12
THANK YOU! It was about "user.mail" (instead of "user.email") – Alexander Apr 02 '18 at 13:26

Why "git log" show me path to The Bat instead of an email?

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