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Re: How to edit commit messages?

From
Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date
Aug 12, 2008, 12:45 UTC
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dr.chiarello@gmail.com wrote:
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> Hi all,
>   what are the best solution to:
> 1) interactively edit commit's messages (some or all)
> 2) batch edit commit's messages (for example using sed)
> 
> My repo is not published yet, so there is no problem in rewriting all
> history.
> 
git filter-branch --msg-filter 'sed s/foo/bar/g' master

to replace all occurrences of foo with bar in all commit messages for all commits made on the master branch.

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