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Re: Editing git changelog automatically

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date
Oct 27, 2014, 08:33 UTC
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Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net> writes:
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> On zo, 2014-10-26 at 22:27 -0700, Cong Wang wrote:
>> 
>> My question is how to edit dozens of git commit changelogs
>> automatically?
>
> You can use git filter-branch in --msg-filter mode.

Note that in any case, you'll rewrite the history hence change commit identifiers. If the history is already published, it's probably better to live with the typo than to try to fix it now.

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Matthieu Moy
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  2. Dennis KaarsemakerOct 27, 2014
  3. Matthieu MoyOct 27, 2014
  4. Cong WangOct 30, 2014
  5. Cong WangOct 30, 2014
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