From b8f423327bea8b82f1cd08cbed52a54a757de856 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:38:46 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] filter-branch: add an example how to add ACKs to a range of commits When you have to add certain lines like ACKs (or for that matter, Signed-off-by:s) to a range of commits starting with HEAD, you might be tempted to use 'git rebase -i -10', but that is a waste of your time. It is better to use 'git filter-branch' with an appropriate message filter, and this commit adds an example how to do so to filter-branch's man page. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt index ab527b5b31..32ea8564a5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt @@ -305,6 +305,16 @@ range in addition to the new branch name. The new branch name will point to the top-most revision that a 'git-rev-list' of this range will print. +If you need to add 'Acked-by' lines to, say, the last 10 commits (none +of which is a merge), use this command: + +-------------------------------------------------------- +git filter-branch --msg-filter ' + cat && + echo "Acked-by: Bugs Bunny " +' HEAD~10..HEAD +-------------------------------------------------------- + *NOTE* the changes introduced by the commits, and which are not reverted by subsequent commits, will still be in the rewritten branch. If you want to throw out _changes_ together with the commits, you should use the -- 2.39.2