Re: How to rebase when some commit hashes are in some commit messages

[Thomas Koch <thomas@koch.ro>]

On Thursday 15 October 2015 09:44:59 Francois-Xavier Le Bail wrote:
> >> On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 10:50:40 +0200
> >> Francois-Xavier Le Bail <devel.fx.lebail@orange.fr> wrote:
> >>> >> For example, if I rebase the following commits, I would want that
> >>> >> if the commit hash 2222222... become 7777777...,
> >>> >> the message
> >>> >> "Update test output for 2222222222222222222222222222222222222222"
> >>> >> become
> >>> >> "Update test output for 7777777..."
> >>> >> 
> >>> >> Is it possible currently? And if yes how?

The code review system Gerrit (highly recommended!) uses a commit-hook to adds 
a trailer line to every commit message, e.g.:

Change-Id: Id8269a1aa4a2c7a1a584b23b01d63259410c4e85

This Change-Id is used to identify a change even if the change gets amended or 
rebased and thus is represented in a different commit.

So if you're using Gerrit you can refer to changes instead of commits and use 
the Change-Id. Even if you don't use Gerrit you can still use its commit-hook 
to write the Change-Id trailers.

Regards,

Thomas Koch