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

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

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3 messages between Apr 5, 2009 and Apr 5, 2009.

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Adam Mercer· Apr 5, 2009, 04:21 UTC · lore

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

Mike Hommey· Apr 5, 2009, 07:21 UTC · re: Adam Mercer · lore

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

On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 11:21:36PM -0500, Adam Mercer wrote:

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> 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.

You need a white space between "ram" and ].

Mike

Adam Mercer· Apr 5, 2009, 15:52 UTC · re: Mike Hommey · lore

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

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 02:21, Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> wrote:

> You need a white space between "ram" and ].

Thanks! I knew it would be something stupid!

Cheers

Adam