Am 20.01.2017 um 23:28 schrieb Philip Oakley: > A recent question on stackoverflow > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41753252/drop-commits-by-commit-message-in-git-rebase > sought to remove automatically commits that could be identified by > relevant words in the commit message. > > I had thought that the ubiquitous `git filter-branch` should be able to > do this sort of thing. I was wrong. (It was pointed out to me that...) > The man page notes that removing a commit via filter-branch does not > remove the changes from following commits and directs readers to using > `git rebase(1)`. > > However the rebase command does not have any filter option to allow the > automatic population of its TODO list with the appropriate > pick/edit/drop/etc. values.
Well you can use an arbitrary shell command as editor, so something like $ GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR="sed -i -re 's/^pick /edit /'" git rebase -i master will change pick to edit of all commits. Maybe that can be mentioned in the man page of rebase?
