Fixing Git Author Name and Email

After moving Mercurial repository to Git you might want to update user names and emails.

The first step would be to see the all the names:

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git log --format='%an <%ae>' | git log --format='%cn <%ce>' | sort | uniq

With this information in hand, we can adjust names with filter-branch:

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git filter-branch --force --commit-filter '
    OLD_NAME="unknown"
    NEW_NAME="My name"
    NEW_EMAIL="myemail@example.com"
    if [ "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME" = "$OLD_NAME" ]; then
        GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="$NEW_NAME"
        GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="$NEW_EMAIL"
    fi
    if [ "$GIT_COMMITTER_NAME" = "$OLD_NAME" ]; then
        GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$NEW_NAME"
        GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="$NEW_EMAIL"
    fi
    git commit-tree "$@";
' --tag-name-filter cat -- --branches --tags --all

git for-each-ref --format='delete %(refname)' refs/original | git update-ref --stdin