From ed10d9aa3f771ad343df5aa50d9004945f7a4e56 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miklos Vajna Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:43:53 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt index e22dfa580..1948f6f72 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 -- 2.30.2