Re: Non-interactively rewording commit messages

[Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 5:35 PM Konstantin Ryabitsev
<konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> Hello, all:
>
> What's the best approach to non-interactively rewrite specific commit
> messages? In this particular case, I am trying to automatically retrieve code
> review trailers sent to the mailing list and put them into corresponding
> commits.
>
> For example, I have a set of commits:
>
> abcabc: This commit does foo
> bcdbcd: This commit does bar
> cdecde: This commit does baz
>
> They were all sent to the mailing list and a maintainer sent a "Reviewed-by"
> to the second commit. In a usual interactive rebase session this would be:
>
> pick abcabc
> reword bcdbcd
> pick cdecde
>
> When the edit screen comes up for the bcdbcd commit, the author would manually
> stick the new trailer into the commit message. However, I can automate all
> that away with b4 -- just need a sane strategy for non-interactively rewriting
> entire commit messages at arbitrary points in the recent history.
>
> Any pointers?

Have you tried `git interpret-trailers`?