Re: Idea: Add a filter option to 'git rebase'

> A recent question on stackoverflow
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41753252/drop-commits-by-commit-message-in-git-rebase
> sought to remove automatically commits that could be identified by
> relevant words in the commit message.
> 
> I had thought that the ubiquitous `git filter-branch` should be able to
> do this sort of thing. I was wrong. (It was pointed out to me that...)
> The man page notes that removing a commit via filter-branch does not
> remove the changes from following commits and directs readers to using
> `git rebase(1)`.
> 
> However the rebase command does not have any filter option to allow the
> automatic population of its TODO list with the appropriate
> pick/edit/drop/etc. values.