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From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Subject: Re: Fixing author/email fields in commit messages
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Jacob Kroon wrote:
> When I started my git repository for my project, I never setup 
> GIT_AUTHOR_NAME etc. correctly,
> so my commit messages used the default information, 
> "<jacob@skeletor.(none)>", "skeletor" being the
> hostname of the computer I'm working on. I'd like to change it so that 
> the messages will contain correct
> information about my e-mail and username. I noticed that this question 
> has been brought up here before
> and that the solution might be to use git-convert-objects, but that it 
> might need some modifications.
> 
> Has anyone come up with a working tool for this task ?

Perhaps "stg uncommit"

Sam.