switch-author

switch-author automates the process of changing the author information for a series of commits in a repository.

Installation

npm install -g switch-author

Optionally you can also use switch-author without installing it globally by using npx

npx switch-author

Usage

Basics

To use the switch-author command, the --name and --email arguments are necessary.

switch-author --name "Firstname Lastname" --email [email protected]

Optional

You can also specify the number of commits from HEAD you want to change author information for by using the --commits argument.

switch-author --name "Firstname Lastname" --email [email protected] --commits 10

This will affect the 10 most recent commits

Help

See all available options for switch-author

switch-author --help