Re: Equivalent of "fixup" for git filter-branch

Philippe Vaucher [off-list ref] writes:

I was also thinking maybe I could use --parent-filter: when I find a
fixup commit, I set its parent to its parent's parent?

This will keep the attributes of the fixup commit, discarding the
parent's ones.  In git rebase, a fixup keeps the attributes of the
parent, discarding the ones of the fixup.

Andreas.

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I was also thinking maybe I could use --parent-filter: when I find a
fixup commit, I set its parent to its parent's parent?

This will keep the attributes of the fixup commit, discarding the
parent's ones.  In git rebase, a fixup keeps the attributes of the
parent, discarding the ones of the fixup.

Ah right. Thanks for your suggestions, I'll try to get it going. Maybe
the result could be material for more examples in the man page.

Philippe