Re: [PATCH 4/4] Add git-rewrite-commits

[Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>]

On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 05:37:22PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> That is to be expected.  After all, the first is a script.  However, I 
> really have ask: how often per hour do you want to run that program?

I have a project that needs some cleaning-up and I'd like to do
it incrementally.  I think I'll have to run it about a dozen times.

> I am really unhappy that so much is talked about filtering out commits.  
> That is amost certainly not what you want in most cases.  In particular, I 
> suspect that most users would expect the _changes_ filtered out by such a 
> command, which is just not true.

I don't care about that either.  I'm just mentioning it because
it's mentioned in the git-filter-branch documentation (which you
added).

> The second is to rewrite the commit messages so that the hashes are 
> mapped, too.  But that should be relatively easy, too: you can provide a 
> message filter, and you can use the provided "map" function.  If this 
> seems to be what many people need, you can write a simple function and put 
> it into filter-branch for common use.

It's not going to be me (as I sais, I don't like shell programming).

skimo