Change email address associated with existing commit

Question

I have rights to push to a GitHub repository. The rights are associated with one of my email addresses. I committed in sourcetree, and then tried to push to the github repository. It failed, because SourceTree was using the wrong email address (one of my other ones).

I have reconfigured Sourcetree to use the right email address in the repository settings, but it's ignoring that when I try to push the commit I've already made - and I can't figure out how to resolve this. reversing the commit says it's just going to create a new one, which leaves me in the same place.

How can I resolve this?

Balázs Szakmáry · Answer

The easiest way is this:

* [Make sure you have no uncommitted changes and perhaps make a backup of the folder with the clone.]
* Do a soft reset to the point right before the (first) commit with the wrong e-mail address.
* Create the commit(s) again with the same changes.
* Push the stuff again.

Seth · Answer

You probably need to use the git command line to modify the commit metadata. I don't know how, but you may have more luck searching for an answer on StackExchange.