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diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt index e22dfa5..1948f6f 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 |