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Using sed and filter-branch to prepend and append to Git commit messages without newlines
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| # Prepending text to the five most recent commit messages: | |
| git filter-branch --msg-filter 'sed "s/\(.*\)/[prepended text] \1/g"' HEAD~5..HEAD | |
| # Appending text to the five most recent commit messages: | |
| git filter-branch --msg-filter 'sed "s/\(.*\)/\1 [appended text]/g"' HEAD~5..HEAD |
Note that this prepends line by line. I.e. if you have multiline commit messages each line gets prepended the string.
# Prepending on the first line only:
git filter-branch -f --msg-filter 'sed "1 s/^/[prepended text]/g"' HEAD~5..HEAD
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Note that this prepends line by line. I.e. if you have multiline commit messages each line gets prepended the string.