filter-branch: add an example how to add ACKs to a range of commits
When you have to add certain lines like ACKs (or for that matter, Signed-off-by:s) to a range of commits starting with HEAD, you might be tempted to use 'git rebase -i -10', but that is a waste of your time. It is better to use 'git filter-branch' with an appropriate message filter, and this commit adds an example how to do so to filter-branch's man page. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Aug 17, 2009 at 22:38 UTC
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@@ -305,6 +305,16 @@ range in addition to the new branch name. The new branch name will
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point to the top-most revision that a 'git-rev-list' of this range
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will print.
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+If you need to add 'Acked-by' lines to, say, the last 10 commits (none
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+of which is a merge), use this command:
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+
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+--------------------------------------------------------
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+git filter-branch --msg-filter '
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+ cat &&
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+ echo "Acked-by: Bugs Bunny <bunny@bugzilla.org>"
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+' HEAD~10..HEAD
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+--------------------------------------------------------
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*NOTE* the changes introduced by the commits, and which are not reverted
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by subsequent commits, will still be in the rewritten branch. If you want
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to throw out _changes_ together with the commits, you should use the