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| author | Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> | 2012-09-18 17:55:08 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-09-18 12:51:58 -0700 |
| commit | 8093ae8854a50edf44e47c0390d3021ffd07bc00 (patch) | |
| tree | 4eba1ade8d3df9a4f14fe863ce42a0f6ec759bf1 /Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt | |
| parent | 5805853f228acafe1d45edeef780cd1b00b952aa (diff) | |
| download | git-8093ae8854a50edf44e47c0390d3021ffd07bc00.tar.gz | |
Documentation/git-filter-branch: Move note about effect of removing commits
The note that explains that changes introduced by removed commits are
preserved should be placed directly after the paragraph that describes
such commits removal. Otherwise the reference to "the commits" appears
out of context.
Also the big example that follows "Consider this history" is about
rewriting part of the history DAG. Move the paragraph that
describes the operation close to it.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt | 19 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt index 15e7ac80c0..e2301f5c01 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt @@ -304,6 +304,11 @@ 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. +*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 +interactive mode of 'git rebase'. + You can rewrite the commit log messages using `--msg-filter`. For example, 'git svn-id' strings in a repository created by 'git svn' can be removed this way: @@ -314,11 +319,6 @@ git filter-branch --msg-filter ' ' ------------------------------------------------------- -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 -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: @@ -329,11 +329,10 @@ git filter-branch --msg-filter ' ' 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 -interactive mode of 'git rebase'. - +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 +point to the top-most revision that a 'git rev-list' of this range +will print. Consider this history: |