From: D. Ben Knoble <ben.knoble@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 17:51:23 GMT
Subject: Re: renormalize histroy with smudge/clean-filter
Message-ID: <CALnO6CBh0UDSeR4Q1VfU7vdSvHFYuO=j_rijVpAE-YH9V=Cqew@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20250209085756.GL30202@raven.inka.de>

On Sun, Feb 9, 2025 at 3:58 AM Josef Wolf <jw@raven.inka.de> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Feb 08, 2025 at 11:21:12PM -0800, Elijah Newren wrote:
> > Yes, I was surprised Phillip's command with --attr-source on the
> > outer-level git invocation worked until I discovered that the code
> > indeed sets the environment variable (which subprocesses, like those
> > created by the --exec/-x switch, will inherit).  So, yes, the -x
> > switch stuff seems to inherit that environment variable that the
> > primary call sets in response to that parameter.
>
> Umm... OK... This means that specifying --attr-source to the commands for the
> -x switch is wrong, since they have a different HEAD?

Not quite: the command actually did

> git --attr-source=$(git rev-parse HEAD) […]

So the subprocesses will see the attributes source as a full-length
commit hash, not "HEAD"

-- 
D. Ben Knoble