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Re: What can cause empty GIT_AUTHOR_NAME for 'git filter-branch --tree-filter' on Solaris?

From
Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date
Oct 18, 2012, 05:31 UTC
Message-ID
<507F9437.2070501@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To
<20121017220912.GA21742@sigill.intra.peff.net>
Am 10/18/2012 0:09, schrieb Jeff King:
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> -	lid="$(echo "$1" | tr "[A-Z]" "[a-z]")"
> -	uid="$(echo "$1" | tr "[a-z]" "[A-Z]")"
> +	lid="$(echo "$1" | tr ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz)"
> +	uid="$(echo "$1" | tr abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ)"
> 
> That seems like crazy overkill, but it at least will let us double-check
> that the tr sequences are the problem.

Right. But we should really be doing something like this instead to save a few subprocesses.

-- Hannes
diff --git a/git-filter-branch.sh b/git-filter-branch.sh
index 178e453..018e56e 100755
--- a/git-filter-branch.sh
+++ b/git-filter-branch.sh
@@ -68,8 +68,8 @@ eval "$functions"
 # "author" or "committer

 set_ident () {
-	lid="$(echo "$1" | tr "[A-Z]" "[a-z]")"
-	uid="$(echo "$1" | tr "[a-z]" "[A-Z]")"
+	uid=$1
+	lid=$2
 	pick_id_script='
 		/^'$lid' /{
 			s/'\''/'\''\\'\'\''/g
@@ -320,9 +320,9 @@ while read commit parents; do
 	git cat-file commit "$commit" >../commit ||
 		die "Cannot read commit $commit"

-	eval "$(set_ident AUTHOR <../commit)" ||
+	eval "$(set_ident AUTHOR author <../commit)" ||
 		die "setting author failed for commit $commit"
-	eval "$(set_ident COMMITTER <../commit)" ||
+	eval "$(set_ident COMMITTER committer <../commit)" ||
 		die "setting committer failed for commit $commit"
 	eval "$filter_env" < /dev/null ||
 		die "env filter failed: $filter_env"
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Message 8 of 24 in “What can cause empty GIT_AUTHOR_NAME for 'git filter-branch --tree-filter' on Solaris?”
  1. Ilya BasinOct 17, 2012
  2. Jeff KingOct 17, 2012
  3. Johannes SixtOct 17, 2012
  4. Re[2]: What can cause empty GIT_AUTHOR_NAME for 'git filter-branch --tree-filter' on Solaris?Ilya Basin, Oct 17, 2012
  5. Re[3]: What can cause empty GIT_AUTHOR_NAME for 'git filter-branch --tree-filter' on Solaris?Ilya Basin, Oct 17, 2012
  6. Jeff KingOct 17, 2012
  7. Jeff KingOct 17, 2012
  8. Johannes SixtOct 18, 2012
  9. Jeff KingOct 18, 2012
  10. Junio C HamanoOct 18, 2012
  11. Jeff KingOct 18, 2012
  12. 0/2 clean up filter-branch ident parsingJeff King, Oct 18, 2012
  13. 1/2 git-sh-setup: refactor ident-parsing functionsJeff King, Oct 18, 2012
  14. Junio C HamanoNov 12, 2012
  15. Jeff KingNov 12, 2012
  16. Junio C HamanoNov 12, 2012
  17. Jeff KingNov 12, 2012
  18. Junio C HamanoNov 12, 2012
  19. 2/2 filter-branch: use git-sh-setup's ident parsing functionsJeff King, Oct 18, 2012
  20. Johannes SixtOct 18, 2012
  21. Jeff KingOct 18, 2012
  22. Jeff KingOct 18, 2012
  23. Jeff KingOct 18, 2012
  24. 2/2 filter-branch: use git-sh-setup's ident parsing functionsJeff King, Oct 18, 2012

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