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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Miklos Vajna 2008-02-25 15:43:53 +01:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
parent ce4a7bff41
commit ed10d9aa3f

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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:
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git filter-branch --message-filter '
sed -e "/^git-svn-id:/d"
'
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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