Re: Removing all notes containing a specific string

From: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 13, 2013, 15:43 UTC
Message-ID: <CAC9WiBj0SEwZmqjGPpJTzStic0RJ2vLnN39mTenji4rCeyH26A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CALKQrgfX-tEm84h8a2qcaoZuZ0U7BCe34V0HMyuvJHCX72-y=A@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> wrote:

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> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'd like to know if that's possible to parse all notes to detect a
>> special string and if it's the case, remove the note like "git-notes
>> remove" would do.
>
> Hi,
>
> There's no built-in command/option to do this, but the following shell
> one-liner should do the job:
>
>   git grep -l $mystring refs/notes/commits | cut -d':' -f2 | tr -d '/'
> | xargs git notes remove
>

Looks "magic" to me but does the trick

Thanks !

-- 
Francis