Re: What can cause empty GIT_AUTHOR_NAME for 'git filter-branch --tree-filter' on Solaris?

[Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>]

Am 10/18/2012 0:09, schrieb Jeff King:
> -	lid="$(echo "$1" | tr "[A-Z]" "[a-z]")"
> -	uid="$(echo "$1" | tr "[a-z]" "[A-Z]")"
> +	lid="$(echo "$1" | tr ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz)"
> +	uid="$(echo "$1" | tr abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ)"
> 
> That seems like crazy overkill, but it at least will let us double-check
> that the tr sequences are the problem.

Right. But we should really be doing something like this instead to save a
few subprocesses.

-- Hannes

diff --git a/git-filter-branch.sh b/git-filter-branch.sh
index 178e453..018e56e 100755
--- a/git-filter-branch.sh
+++ b/git-filter-branch.sh
@@ -68,8 +68,8 @@ eval "$functions"
 # "author" or "committer

 set_ident () {
-	lid="$(echo "$1" | tr "[A-Z]" "[a-z]")"
-	uid="$(echo "$1" | tr "[a-z]" "[A-Z]")"
+	uid=$1
+	lid=$2
 	pick_id_script='
 		/^'$lid' /{
 			s/'\''/'\''\\'\'\''/g
@@ -320,9 +320,9 @@ while read commit parents; do
 	git cat-file commit "$commit" >../commit ||
 		die "Cannot read commit $commit"

-	eval "$(set_ident AUTHOR <../commit)" ||
+	eval "$(set_ident AUTHOR author <../commit)" ||
 		die "setting author failed for commit $commit"
-	eval "$(set_ident COMMITTER <../commit)" ||
+	eval "$(set_ident COMMITTER committer <../commit)" ||
 		die "setting committer failed for commit $commit"
 	eval "$filter_env" < /dev/null ||
 		die "env filter failed: $filter_env"