From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 00:52:11 GMT
Subject: Re: I want to release a "git-1.0"
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505301748130.1876@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050530221214.GA29556@redhat.com>



On Mon, 30 May 2005, Dave Jones wrote:
>
>     GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="John Doe"      \
>     GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="jdoe@foo.com" \
>     git-commit-tree `git-write-tree`    \
>     -p $(cat .git/HEAD )            \
>     < changelog.txt         \
>     > .git/HEAD

You _really_ want to script this.

Also, I'd seriously suggest you avoid using ".git/HEAD" _and_ writing to 
.git/HEAD in the same command. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't.

So script it with something like

	#!/bin/sh
	export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="$1"
	export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="$2"
	tree=$(git-write-tree) || exit 1
	commit=$(git-commit-tree $tree -p HEAD) || exit 1
	echo $commit > .git/HEAD

and now you can just do

	commit-as "John Doe" "jdoe@foo.com" < changelog.txt

or something like that.

The git commands really are designed to be scripted.

		Linus