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Editing a commit's metadata #972
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Hi!
Is it possible to edit a commit's metadata (author, committer etc) using only a Commmit object?
I see that we can get a list of commit instances that reflect the history of a target branch, but could I change the attributes of those instances (e.g. the author attribute) and have the changes be applied to the repository (on the fly, or using some kind of repo.commit() function)?
Thanks!
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Byron commentedon Feb 8, 2020
The git commit history is immutable and thus append-only. Adjusting anything requires rewriting parts of the history.
This can be done easiest using
git rebase -iorgit-filter-branch. Equivalent functionality could be implemented in GitPython, but it's certainly very close to the 'metal'.Even though this issue is closed, please feel free to add further comments or remarks.