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cherry-pick from a branch to another with git-svn automatically stripping git-svn-id from commit message

From
DSDaniele Segato <daniele.bilug@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 10, 2010, 15:44 UTC
Message-ID
<9accb4401002100744o73a347e0pe86e706bcd2b04be@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,

since git-svn modify the commit message when you dcommit something (git svn dcommit) and then use the commit message to decide which is the branch to dcommit next cherry-pick-ing (and other commands) has some problem when you work through different svn branch.

Example, you have 2 remote branch: remote/trunk, remote/v1.x and you are following them with two branches: trunk and v1.x

now say you want to cherry-pick a commit from trunk into v1.x locally to dcommit it onto the remote/v1.x branch.

the step you had to do are: git cherry-pick <your-commit-hash-on-trunk> git commit --amend # removing the line starting with git-svn-id # or add the -e option to cherry-pick instead of amending git svn dcommit

now, if you have to do it frequently it is a bit annoying and you man do some mistake.

I want to make it automatic and easy to use like:

git cherry-pick-svn <your-commit-hash-on-trunk> git svn dcommit

with an alias.

on #irc charon suggested me to use !GIT_EDITOR="script that strip the git-svn-id here" git cherry-pick ...

so I tried this from command line (hash is just a random one):
GIT_EDITOR="sed -i '/^git-svn-id:/d'" git cherry-pick -e 9eb6b7de
it works.
so I opened my ~/.gitconfig and added this alias:
[alias]
	cherry-pick-svn =  !GIT_EDITOR="sed -i '/^git-svn-id:/d'" git cherry-pick -e

but with $ git cherry-pick-svn 9eb6b7de I get: sh: -i: command not found fatal: Failed to run 'GIT_EDITOR=sed -i -e '/^git-svn-id:/d' git cherry-pick -e '9eb6b7de...'' when expanding alias 'cherry-pick-svn'

but modifying it with this:
[alias]
	cherry-pick-svn =  !GIT_EDITOR='sed -i /^git-svn-id:/d' git cherry-pick -e
made it working.
I just want to share this with you if someone need it.

And may be ask if you find any problem with this or if you have a better way to do it

Regards, Daniele

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  1. Daniele SegatoFeb 10, 2010

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