[PATCH] filter-branch: add an example how to add ACKs to a range of commits
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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
- Date
- Aug 17, 2009, 20:38 UTC
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When you have to add certain lines like ACKs (or for that matter, Signed-off-by:s) to a range of commits starting with HEAD, you might be tempted to use 'git rebase -i -10', but that is a waste of your time.
It is better to use 'git filter-branch' with an appropriate message filter, and this commit adds an example how to do so to filter-branch's man page.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> --- Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt | 10 ++++++++++ 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt index ab527b5..32ea856 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt @@ -305,6 +305,16 @@ range in addition to the new branch name. The new branch name will point to the top-most revision that a 'git-rev-list' of this range will print. +If you need to add 'Acked-by' lines to, say, the last 10 commits (none +of which is a merge), use this command: + +-------------------------------------------------------- +git filter-branch --msg-filter ' + cat && + echo "Acked-by: Bugs Bunny <bunny@bugzilla.org>" +' HEAD~10..HEAD +-------------------------------------------------------- + *NOTE* the changes introduced by the commits, and which are not reverted by subsequent commits, will still be in the rewritten branch. If you want to throw out _changes_ together with the commits, you should use the
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