From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:57:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] filter-branch.sh: support nearly proper tag name filtering
Message-ID: <7vmyolgbor.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <47E91DF0.5070302@nrlssc.navy.mil>

Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> writes:

> If you think the strict ordering that mktag requires could be relaxed in the
> future, then the line number addresses in sed could be changed to ranges
> like:
>
> 	-e "1,4s/^object ..*/object $newobject/"
>
> Of course, if we use ranges, we may have to worry about matching against
> the tag body if the header gets any longer.

I do not think you have to worry if you did this:

        1,/^$/{
                s/object .*/object $newobject/
                s/type .*/type $newtype/
                ...
        }