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authorMiklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>2008-02-25 15:43:53 +0100
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-02-25 13:05:25 -0800
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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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diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
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@@ -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