[--index-filter <command>] [--parent-filter <command>]
[--msg-filter <command>] [--commit-filter <command>]
[--tag-name-filter <command>] [--subdirectory-filter <directory>]
+ [--prune-empty]
[--original <namespace>] [-d <directory>] [-f | --force]
[--] [<rev-list options>...]
useful in the future for compensating for some git bugs or such,
therefore such a usage is permitted.
+*NOTE*: This command honors `.git/info/grafts`. If you have any grafts
+defined, running this command will make them permanent.
+
*WARNING*! The rewritten history will have different object names for all
the objects and will not converge with the original branch. You will not
be able to easily push and distribute the rewritten branch on top of the
--subdirectory-filter <directory>::
Only look at the history which touches the given subdirectory.
The result will contain that directory (and only that) as its
- project root.
+ project root. Implies --remap-to-ancestor.
+
+--remap-to-ancestor::
+ Rewrite refs to the nearest rewritten ancestor instead of
+ ignoring them.
++
+Normally, positive refs on the command line are only changed if the
+commit they point to was rewritten. However, you can limit the extent
+of this rewriting by using linkgit:rev-list[1] arguments, e.g., path
+limiters. Refs pointing to such excluded commits would then normally
+be ignored. With this option, they are instead rewritten to point at
+the nearest ancestor that was not excluded.
--prune-empty::
Some kind of filters will generate empty commits, that left the tree
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 <bunny@bugzilla.org>"
+' 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