From: Miklos Vajna Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:43:53 GMT Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/git-filter-branch: add a new msg-filter example 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 --- On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 09:58:41AM -0800, Junio C Hamano 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 -- 1.5.4.3