git filter-branch --msg-filter to reword a pushed commit message

Question

How can I reword the message of an old commit that is already pushed to a private remote? I want to keep the time stamps and tags.

I found this command here:

git filter-branch -f --msg-filter 
'sed "s/<old message>/<new message>/g"' -- --all

In order to keep the tags i added: --tag-name-filter cat

When executing the command git tells me: msg filter failed

The message I want to change is a merged-message "Merge branch 'release/...'" is this the problem?

Answer 1

The solution was to escape the slash in "release/..." using a backslash. So the command I used was:

git filter-branch -f --msg-filter 
'sed "s/release/Version-[0-9].[0-9].[0-9]/develop/g"' 
--tag-name-filter cat -- --all