From: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:16:14 GMT
Subject: Re: git filter-branch --filter-notes/--post-rewrite?
Message-ID: <201103180116.14754.johan@herland.net>
In-Reply-To: <hbf.20110317iwua@bombur.uio.no>

On Thursday 17 March 2011, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
> Is there a git version where filter-branch can copy notes, or with a
> post-rewrite hook?  I found an old discussion of that on WWW, but
> nothing seems to have come of that yet.  Currently I remove the 'rm
> -rf "$tempdir"' in git-filter-branch.sh so the info is available
> for a separate script.

No, AFAIK notes copying (or post-rewrite hook) has not yet been implemented 
in filter-branch. However, it shouldn't be very difficult to add support for 
this:

Looking at git-rebase.sh (where it _is_ implemented), it seems to be a 
matter of feeding "old_sha1 new_sha1" pairs into a "rewritten" file, and 
then passing that file to the stdin of "git notes copy --for-rewrite=filter-
branch" (followed by passing the same file to the "post-rewrite" hook).


Have fun! :)

...Johan

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Johan Herland, <johan@herland.net>
www.herland.net