From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
To: Adam Mercer <ramercer@gmail.com>
Cc: GIT <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: error in rewriting author history with filter-branch --env-filter
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 09:21:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090405072158.GA3881@glandium.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <799406d60904042121o27b4ac39m633354dcf0bcc84d@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 11:21:36PM -0500, Adam Mercer wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm trying to use git filter-branch to rewrite the author information
> on an repo that was imported from CVS a while ago, the commits I'm
> trying to rewrite are as follows:
>
> commit 2cdeb25148f02b35391bd80a2c4c1876d7b8b840 Author: <ram> Date:
> Wed Dec 22 13:36:01 2004 +0000
>
> modify style
>
> I'm trying to modify <ram> to be replaced with my name and email
> address. To do this I've been trying to use the following command
>
> $ git filter-branch --env-filter ' an="$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
> am="$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL" if [ "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL" = "ram"]; then
> an="Adam Mercer" am="ramercer@gmail.com" fi export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=$an
> export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=$am '
>
> however when I run this I get loads of errors of the form:
>
> Rewrite 18242fa722ff393e7fce78e05f37fa7c3b3825e1
> (1/216)/opt/local/libexec/git-core/git-filter-branch: line 307: [:
> missing `]'
>
> Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? I'm running git-1.6.2.2.
You need a white space between "ram" and ].
Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-05 7:22 UTC|newest]
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2009-04-05 4:21 error in rewriting author history with filter-branch --env-filter Adam Mercer
2009-04-05 7:21 ` Mike Hommey [this message]
2009-04-05 15:52 ` Adam Mercer
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