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git cli

March 21, 2020

Written in March 2020.

Tools

Rewrite history

Note that this is REALLY DANGEROUS operations and please do it with your responsibility. git-filter-repo can be used to rewrite history, and it’s official tool to replace with git-filter-branch.

Install on Mac OS 

> brew install git-filter-repo

How to use

  • Replacing name and email with new one. Use --email-callback and --name-callback options. For more details, run git filter-repo --help.
> git filter-repo --email-callback 'return email.replace(b"old@gmail.com", b"new@gmail.com")' --name-callback 'return name.replace(b"Old name", b"New name")'
Parsed 174 commits
New history written in 0.19 seconds; now repacking/cleaning...
Repacking your repo and cleaning out old unneeded objects
HEAD is now at 973ca76 Merge pull request #48 from at-ishikawa/move-grpc
Enumerating objects: 1365, done.
Counting objects: 100% (1365/1365), done.
Delta compression using up to 16 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (717/717), done.
Writing objects: 100% (1365/1365), done.
Total 1365 (delta 480), reused 1273 (delta 473)
Completely finished after 0.67 seconds.
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