How to Change the Author of a Git Commit

Published January 29, 2025

How to change the author of a git commit How to change the author of a git commit

If your coworker has made some updates to an existing git repo, and has asked you to update for them, you can update and push it to remote with their name as author instead of yours.

You have an existing git commit

Assuming you made the commit for a coworker and this commit is the last commit, and the name of the other author is XYZ and their email address is xyz@company.com, this is what you would do.

git commit --amend --author="XYZ <xyz@company.com>"

The editor opens and you may be prompted to save and close.

When you have done that, the author would have changed from you to XYZ.

Verify the commit author details

Run this to verify the commit author:

git log

You will be able to see the same git commit information, but with the author XYZ with their email address instead of yours.

Conclusion

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Last Updated: January 29, 2025.     This post was originally written on January 29, 2025.