It can be done by using « git filter-branch ».  This is what I used when I 
converted from cvs.
Beware that since the author is part of the hash calculation, changing it would 
make a different a different history.  So if you have references outside of 
your repo that refers directly to hash code, they will no longer be valid.

--
jfv


Le 2013-03-21 à 09:21, Musall Maik <[email protected]> a écrit :

> 
> Am 21.03.2013 um 14:18 schrieb Musall Maik <[email protected]>:
> 
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> at some point in the past I migrated several subversion repos to git. 
>> Although everything is working, there is a minor annoyance left. Author 
>> entries in current commits from me look like this:
>> 
>> Author: Maik Musall <[email protected]>
>> 
>> while commits from before the migration look like this:
>> 
>> Author: maik <maik@f954726d-a12f-0410-a0f4-afcb570274bb>
>> 
>> I know there are ways to configure git-svn before doing the migration to 
>> cope with that [1], but I didn't know that at the time. Do I have any 
>> options to change the old author entries to match the current ones so that 
>> they don't look like different authors? I suppose I can dig into the .git 
>> files somewhere, but I'm not comfortable doing that on my own.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Maik
> 
> Dang, forgot the footnote.
> 
> [1] 
> http://jonmaddox.com/2008/03/05/cleanly-migrate-your-subversion-repository-to-a-git-repository/
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