Editing a commit's metadata

[lenormf]

Hi!

Is it possible to edit a commit's metadata (author, committer etc) using only a Commmit object?

I see that we can get a list of commit instances that reflect the history of a target branch, but could I change the attributes of those instances (e.g. the author attribute) and have the changes be applied to the repository (on the fly, or using some kind of repo.commit() function)?

Thanks!

[Byron]

The git commit history is immutable and thus append-only. Adjusting anything requires rewriting parts of the history.

This can be done easiest using git rebase -i or git-filter-branch. Equivalent functionality could be implemented in GitPython, but it's certainly very close to the 'metal'.

Even though this issue is closed, please feel free to add further comments or remarks.