[PATCH] Documentation/git-filter-branch: add a new msg-filter example

From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date: Feb 25, 2008, 14:43 UTC
Message-ID: <20080225144353.GT31441@genesis.frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v7iguxmlq.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

There were no example on how to edit commit messages, so add an msg-filter example.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
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On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 09:58:41AM -0800, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> Ahhhhhhh, that was the little voice that kept telling me there
> is something wrong with the patch...

uh-oh. third try :)

 Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt |    9 +++++++++
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
index e22dfa5..1948f6f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
@@ -240,6 +240,15 @@ committed a merge between P1 and P2, it will be propagated properly
 and all children of the merge will become merge commits with P1,P2
 as their parents instead of the merge commit.
 
+You can rewrite the commit log messages using `--message-filter`.  For
+example, `git-svn-id` strings in a repository created by `git-svn` can
+be removed this way:
+
+-------------------------------------------------------
+git filter-branch --message-filter '
+	sed -e "/^git-svn-id:/d"
+'
+-------------------------------------------------------
 
 To restrict rewriting to only part of the history, specify a revision
 range in addition to the new branch name.  The new branch name will

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