From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:42:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] Add git-rewrite-commits
Message-ID: <20070709144248.GW1528MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707091450440.5546@racer.site>

On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 03:11:45PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Sven Verdoolaege wrote:
> > The current git-rewrite-commits will rewrite all SHA1's it can find,
> > irrespective of any 'commit ' that may precede it.
> 
> Even abbreviated ones?

Yes.  I'll add that to the documentation.

> * rename the darned things to "filter" again.
> 
> * --write-sha1-mappings=<directory> (or --write-commit-mappings), possibly 
>   defaulting to .git/mappings/.  Be careful not to overwrite an existing 
>   such directory.
> 
> * change the semantics of the commit filter: the output is a list 
>   (possibly empty) of replacement sha1's for this commit.
> 
> * if any filters are called, provide a script with convenience functions, 
>   and an environment variable pointing to it.  These functions should 
>   include:
> 
> 	* map
> 	* commit
> 	* save
> 	* restore

Hmm... you're tricking me into write shell code.

skimo