Re: Workflow to accumulate individual changes?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Karl Fogel writes:

 > Search for the phrase
 > 
 >   "after writing the Contribulyzer code to process log messages
 >   formatted according to the new standard, we could go back and fix up
 >   all of the project's existing logs to conform to that standard"
 > 
 > to jump straight to the paragraph about how editing log messages after
 > the fact made a big difference.

For something like that you could use git-filter-branch and probably
the equivalent in bzr (there *is* an equivalent, but I think it
requires converting to fastimport format to use).  To avoid the rebase
issue, you'd maybe merge the resulting branch rather than rebase.

git-filter-branch is very fast, although bzr's equivalent would not be
if I'm correct about converting to fastimport format.  But it could
probably be made to be fast.