[PATCH] Documentation/git-filter-branch: add a new commit-filter example
From: Miklos Vajna <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:44:16
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
There is a commit-filter example already which skips commits but there is no example on how to edit commit messages. One can figure out this example by carefully reading the git-filter-branch and git-commit-tree documentation but I think it isn't trivial so this example is helpful. Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <redacted> --- The lack of such an example was noticed by dvorak on IRC. Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
index e22dfa5..a035b9c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt@@ -240,6 +240,12 @@ 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. +To remove the 'git-svn-id' strings from commit messages in a repository created +by git-svn: + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +git filter-branch --commit-filter 'sed "/^git-svn-id:/d" |git commit-tree "$@"' +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
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