Re: sending changesets from the middle of a git tree

On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 12:02:33AM -0400, Ryan Anderson wrote:

On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 10:35:50PM -0500, Steve French wrote:

quoted

2) There is no way to update the comment field of a changeset after it 
goes in (e.g. to add a bugzilla bug number for a bug that was opened 
just after the fix went in).

No, a commit is immutable.  You can use "git format-patch" to rebase things if
you need.  I prefer to use "git format-patch --mbox", edit what I need
to, then use git-applymbox to rebase it all against a clean tree.

Note (and I should have said this at first), doing it this way gives you
the opportunity to combine a few changes if you want.

Use git-format-patch-script to pull out what you want, delete the diff
from the bottom of the file, manually diff what you need using
git-diff-script, and stick that back at the end of the file
git-format-patch-script created.

This seems to be the easiest way to clean up your change history.

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Ryan Anderson
  sometimes Pug Majere