From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document git-filter-branch Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:53:29 +0200 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <20070703220540.GN12721@planck.djpig.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jul 11 18:53:44 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I8fRf-0006xD-8z for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:53:43 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751706AbXGKQxj (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:53:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752159AbXGKQxj (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:53:39 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:54061 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751620AbXGKQxj (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:53:39 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1I8fRY-0002WU-0Q for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:53:36 +0200 Received: from host-89-229-8-65.torun.mm.pl ([89.229.8.65]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:53:36 +0200 Received: from jnareb by host-89-229-8-65.torun.mm.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:53:36 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-89-229-8-65.torun.mm.pl Mail-Copies-To: Jakub Narebski User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: [Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Schindelin , Frank Lichtenheld ] Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: >>> +Note that since this operation is extensively I/O expensive, it might >>> +be a good idea to redirect the temporary directory it off-disk, e.g. on By the way, could git-filter-branch use git-fast-import to reduce I/O? >>> +the id of the commit being rewritten. The author/committer environment >>> +variables are set before the first filter is run. >> >> Maybe give the actual names of the environment variables here? > > If you think so: > > Also, GIT_AUTHOR_NAME, GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL, GIT_AUTHOR_DATE, > GIT_COMMITTER_NAME, GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL, and GIT_COMMITTER_DATE is > set according to the current commit. Or Also, GIT_AUTHOR_NAME, GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL, GIT_AUTHOR_DATE, GIT_COMMITTER_NAME, GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL, and GIT_COMMITTER_DATE are filled with data taken from the current commit. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git