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| author |  Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> | 2008-02-25 15:43:53 +0100 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-02-25 13:05:25 -0800 |
| commit | ed10d9aa3f771ad343df5aa50d9004945f7a4e56 (patch) | |
| tree | c132b2151ea017a1c0fee5471a11c630f2305a72 /Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt | |
| parent | Correct fast-export file mode strings to match fast-import standard (diff) | |
| download | tgif-ed10d9aa3f771ad343df5aa50d9004945f7a4e56.tar.xz | |
Documentation/git-filter-branch: add a new msg-filter example
There were no example on how to edit commit messages, so add an msg-filter
example.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt index e22dfa5803..1948f6f72c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt @@ -240,6 +240,15 @@ committed a merge between P1 and P2, it will be propagated properly and all children of the merge will become merge commits with P1,P2 as their parents instead of the merge commit. +You can rewrite the commit log messages using `--message-filter`. For +example, `git-svn-id` strings in a repository created by `git-svn` can +be removed this way: + +------------------------------------------------------- +git filter-branch --message-filter ' + sed -e "/^git-svn-id:/d" +' +------------------------------------------------------- To restrict rewriting to only part of the history, specify a revision range in addition to the new branch name. The new branch name will |