find and remove specific git commits using rebase

README.md

# find the commits you want to remove, e.g. using all commits that added or changed a file
$ git whatchanged -- path/to/file [...] > files.lst
$ git whatadded -- path/to/file [...] >> files.lst
# then do a rebase to get all commits that were added since then, including the ones you want to exclude
$ git rebase -i <commit> 
# when rebase stops it will have created .git/rebase-merge/git-rebase-todo
# then do the following. this will take the commit ids from files.lst and
# remove every line in git rebase-todo 
$ cat files.lst | cut -b1-7 | xargs -L1 -I {}  sed -i '/{}/d' /home/patrick/projects/shrebo-ext/.git/rebase-merge/git-rebase-todo