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>
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Feb 25, 2008 at 15:43 UTC
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@@ -240,6 +240,15 @@ committed a merge between P1 and P2, it will be propagated properly
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and all children of the merge will become merge commits with P1,P2
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as their parents instead of the merge commit.
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+You can rewrite the commit log messages using `--message-filter`. For
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+example, `git-svn-id` strings in a repository created by `git-svn` can
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+be removed this way:
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+-------------------------------------------------------
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+git filter-branch --message-filter '
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+ sed -e "/^git-svn-id:/d"
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+'
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+-------------------------------------------------------
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To restrict rewriting to only part of the history, specify a revision
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range in addition to the new branch name. The new branch name will