Fix Wrong Email Address in Git

You’ve pushed your code to GitHub/GitLab, but didn’t set the correct author’s email - what now?

When you take a look at the remote code repository (GitHub, GitLab, or similar), the commit is linked to the wrong user.

Fix single git commit with the wrong email address/user name

Fix the git configuration in your terminal (local):

git config user.name "Your name"
git config user.email "your@email.com"

Rebase
```
git rebase -i HEAD~1
```
An editor window pops up where the commit is marked as pick - change it to edit and save.
Git Amend
```
git commit --amend --reset-author
```
Finish the rebase
```
git rebase --continue
```
Push to the remote repository
```
git push -f origin master
```

Alternative

You can also work with git filter-branch to fix the complete history.
This operation is unsafe, so proceed with care.

git filter-branch --env-filter 'export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="correct@email.com";GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="correct name"'
git push -f origin master

Here’s a script that also corrects the committer:

#!/bin/sh

## Credits: https://stackoverflow.com/a/750191

git filter-branch -f --env-filter "
    GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='Newname'
    GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL='new@email'
    GIT_COMMITTER_NAME='Newname'
    GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL='new@email'
  " HEAD

Then push to the remote repository: git push -f origin master.

Fix Wrong Email Address in Git

Fix single git commit with the wrong email address/user name

Alternative

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