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Re: Removing all notes containing a specific string

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Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date
Sep 13, 2013, 08:12 UTC
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On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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
...Johan
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