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Git cheatsheet

git

change date

git commit --amend --date="3 day ago" --no-edit
git commit --amend --date="20 July 16:00" --no-edit

  • :q! to finish the commit in console

change author

git commit --amend --author="hannes <hannes@address.com>" --no-edit

batch rename author from commit, source (also resets date)

git rebase -r 32873fa26ea2e5068bbf489693cdceed8abdf0d8 --exec 'git commit --amend --no-edit --reset-author'

print URLs

git remote -v


origin  https://github.com/hannesdelbeke/unimenu.wiki.git (fetch)
origin  https://github.com/hannesdelbeke/unimenu.wiki.git (push)

change URL

git remote set-url origin https://github.com/USER/git-submodule

Multiple GitHub accounts

to handle multiple hosts. go to config in the folder:

explorer C:\Users\%username%\.ssh

copy the hostname

Host github.com
   HostName github.com
   User git
   IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa