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I have a local git repository with a bunch of commits made with my real name and personal email. I want to push these to GitHub, but without using my personal details.

I've rewritten the name and email for each commit using the following command:

git filter-branch -f --env-filter \ "GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='github_username'; GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL='[email protected]'; \ GIT_COMMITTER_NAME='github_username'; GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL='[email protected]';" HEAD

All looks fine when a do a git log after this. My personal email is nowhere to be seen.

I then try to GPG sign every commit using:

git filter-branch --commit-filter 'git commit-tree -S "$@";' -- --all

But on the very first commit I get the following error:

Rewrite 1124486cba6a6f6432adb24f7c66833d860b191f (1/38) (1 seconds passed, remaining 37 predicted) gpg: skipped "My Real Name <[email protected]>": No secret key gpg: signing failed: No secret key error: gpg failed to sign the data could not write rewritten commit

Where is it getting my old username and password from?

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Turns out the -- --all at the end was the culprit. Changing that to HEAD instead worked fine.

git filter-branch --commit-filter 'git commit-tree -S "$@";' HEAD
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