git: commit with the wrong email

14 Oct, 2025 • 59 words • 1 min • updated 03 Jan, 2026

You are sending a PR upstream.

You accidentally commit it with the wrong email.

First, you prevent this mistake from happening again by updating your ~/.gitconfig.

And now you need to fix the most recent commit.

You can easily do so with:

shell

% git commit --amend --reset-author --no-edit

Alternatively, with my aliases:

shell

git uncommit && git recommit