Add the --submodule option to the diff option family

diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
index 237f85e7673e90b214550e051d92c4cb0865413a..2b40babb6ba1c5eb99ae2cc7748854f5e4dcd864 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
        [--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>...]
 
@@ -31,6 +32,9 @@ changes, which would normally have no effect.  Nevertheless, this may be
 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
@@ -302,6 +306,16 @@ 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 <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