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From: Tade <yess@hell.org.pl>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: filter-branch env-filter example
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:47:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <511BEDDF.7010800@hell.org.pl> (raw)

filter-branch --env-filter example that shows how to change the email address
in all commits by a certain developer.
---
  Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt | 13 +++++++++++++
  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
index dfd12c9..2664cec 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
@@ -329,6 +329,19 @@ git filter-branch --msg-filter '
  ' HEAD~10..HEAD
  --------------------------------------------------------
  
+You can modify committer/author personal information using `--env-filter`.
+For example, to update some developer's email address use this command:
+
+--------------------------------------------------------
+git filter-branch --env-filter '
+	if [ $GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL =john@old.example.com  ]
+	then
+		GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=john@new.example.com
+	fi
+	export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL
+' -- --all
+--------------------------------------------------------
+
  To restrict rewriting to only part of the history, specify a revision
  range in addition to the new branch name.  The new branch name will
  point to the top-most revision that a 'git rev-list' of this range
-- 1.7.11.7

             reply	other threads:[~2013-02-13 20:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-13 19:47 Tade [this message]
2013-02-14  6:49 ` [PATCH] Documentation: filter-branch env-filter example Johannes Sixt
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-02-14 19:34 Tadeusz Andrzej Kadłubowski
2013-02-14 20:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-14 21:09   ` Jeff King
2013-02-14 21:24     ` Jeff King
2013-02-14 21:51     ` Junio C Hamano

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