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error in rewriting author history with filter-branch --env-filter

From
Adam Mercer <ramercer@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 5, 2009, 04:21 UTC
Message-ID
<799406d60904042121o27b4ac39m633354dcf0bcc84d@mail.gmail.com>
Hi

I'm trying to use git filter-branch to rewrite the author information on an repo that was imported from CVS a while ago, the commits I'm trying to rewrite are as follows:

commit 2cdeb25148f02b35391bd80a2c4c1876d7b8b840
Author: <ram>
Date:   Wed Dec 22 13:36:01 2004 +0000
    modify style

I'm trying to modify <ram> to be replaced with my name and email address. To do this I've been trying to use the following command

$ git filter-branch --env-filter ' an="$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME" am="$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL" if [ "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL" = "ram"]; then an="Adam Mercer" am="ramercer@gmail.com" fi export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=$an export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=$am '

however when I run this I get loads of errors of the form:

Rewrite 18242fa722ff393e7fce78e05f37fa7c3b3825e1 (1/216)/opt/local/libexec/git-core/git-filter-branch: line 307: [: missing `]'

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? I'm running git-1.6.2.2.
Cheers
Adam
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