
However, being as powerful as it is, this also means you can very easily shoot yourself in the foot. Interactive Rebase is the Swiss Army Knife of tools in Git: it allows you to do and change almost anything. This effectively replaces the last commit with your "edited" version, correcting the wrong author information.

In case you want to change just the very last commit, Git offers a very easy way to do this: git commit -amend -author="John Doe " There are three basic ways to edit your past commits: Using -amend for the Very Last Commit Therefore, think twice before you rewrite your commit history! This is nothing to take lightly: you will create new commit objects in this process, which can become a serious problem for your collaborators - because they might have already based new work on some of the original commits. No matter how exactly we change the information of past commits, there's one thing to always keep in mind: if we do this, we are effectively rewriting commit history.


Note Editing Past Commits Rewrites History!
