Use this when you need to change the author of all the commit messages in a branch. git filter-branch -f --env-filter "GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='n8e'; GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL='[email protected]'; GIT_COMMITTER_NAME='n8e'; GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL='[email protected]';" HEAD

After this, then git push origin + to force push the changes to the repository

Authentication: If using 2FA, the code from your Authenticator app needs to be included in the authentication along with your user name and password

$ curl -i -u your_username -v -H "X-Github-OTP:your_authentication_code" https://api.github.com/users/defunkt

This will prompt you for your password:

Enter host password for user 'your_username':

Enter your Github password

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

Sometimes you want to have a subdirectory on the master branch be the root directory of a repository’s gh-pages branch. This is useful for things like sites developed with Yeoman, or if you have a Jekyll site contained in the master branch alongside the rest of your code.

For the sake of this example, let’s pretend the subfolder containing your site is named dist.

Remove the dist directory from the project’s .gitignore file (it’s ignored by default by Yeoman).