We used to take the first non-option argument as the name for the new
branch. This syntax is not extensible to support rewriting more than just
HEAD.
Instead, we now have the following syntax:
git filter-branch [<filter options>...] [<rev-list options>]
All positive refs given in <rev-list options> are rewritten. Yes,
in-place. If a ref was changed, the original head is stored in
refs/original/$ref now, for your inspecting pleasure, in addition to the
reflogs (since it is easier to inspect "git show-ref | grep original" than
to inspect all the reflogs).
This commit also adds the --force option to remove .git-rewrite/ and all
refs from refs/original/ before filtering.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It was reported by Alex Riesen that "set -e" can break something as
trivial as "unset CDPATH" in bash.
So get rid of "set -e".
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace uses of cat that do nothing but writing the contents of
a single file to another command via pipe.
[jc: Original patch from Josh was somewhat buggy and rewrote
"cat $file | wc -l" to "wc -l $file", but this one should be Ok.]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A common mistake is to provide a filter which fails unwantedly. For
example, this will stop in the middle:
git filter-branch --env-filter '
test $GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL = xyz &&
export GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL = abc' rewritten
When $GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL is not "xyz", the test fails, and consequently
the whole filter has a non-zero exit status. However, as demonstrated
in this example, filter-branch would just stop, and the user would be
none the wiser.
Also, a failing msg-filter would not have been caught, as was the
case with one of the tests.
This patch fixes both issues, by paying attention to the exit status
of msg-filter, and by saying what failed before exiting.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
--tag-name-filter may have failed before because
warn is used for reporting but was not available.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of filling the screen with progress lines, use \r so that
the progress can be seen, but warning messages are more visible.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the map function didn't find the rewritten commit of the passed in
original id, it printed the original id, but it still fell through to
the 'cat', which failed with an error message.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This moves the documentation in git-filter-branch.sh to its own
man page, with a few touch ups (incorporating comments by Frank
Lichtenheld).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
I realize that a lot of people use the "git-xyzzy" format, and we have
various historical reasons for it, but I also think that most people have
long since started thinking of the git command as a single command with
various subcommands, and we've long had the documentation talk about it
that way.
Slowly migrating away from the git-xyzzy format would allow us to
eventually no longer install hundreds of binaries (even if most of them
are symlinks or hardlinks) in users $PATH, and the _original_ reasons for
it (implementation issues and bash completion) are really long long gone.
Using "git xyzzy" also has some fundamental advantages, like the ability
to specify things like paging ("git -p xyzzy") and making the whole notion
of aliases act like other git commands (which they already do, but they do
*not* have a "git-xyzzy" form!)
Anyway, while actually removing the "git-xyzzy" things is not practical
right now, we can certainly start slowly to deprecate it internally inside
git itself - in the shell scripts we use, and the test vectors.
This patch adds a "remove-dashes" makefile target, which does that. It
isn't particularly efficient or smart, but it *does* successfully rewrite
a lot of our shell scripts to use the "git xyzzy" form for all built-in
commands.
(For non-builtins, the "git xyzzy" format implies an extra execve(), so
this script leaves those alone).
So apply this patch, and then run
make remove-dashes
make test
git commit -a
to generate a much larger patch that actually starts this transformation.
(The only half-way subtle thing about this is that it also fixes up
git-filter-branch.sh for the new world order by adding quoting around
the use of "git-commit-tree" as an argument. It doesn't need it in that
format, but when changed into "git commit-tree" it is no longer a single
word, and the quoting maintains the old behaviour).
NOTE! This does not yet mean that you can actually stop installing the
"git-xyzzy" binaries for the builtins. There are some remaining places
that want to use the old form, this just removes the most obvious ones
that can easily be done automatically.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ei/worktree+filter:
filter-branch: always export GIT_DIR if it is set
setup_git_directory: fix segfault if repository is found in cwd
test GIT_WORK_TREE
extend rev-parse test for --is-inside-work-tree
Use new semantics of is_bare/inside_git_dir/inside_work_tree
introduce GIT_WORK_TREE to specify the work tree
test git rev-parse
rev-parse: introduce --is-bare-repository
rev-parse: document --is-inside-git-dir
This is based on Jeff King's example in
20070621130137.GB4487@coredump.intra.peff.net
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When two branches are merged that modify a subdirectory (possibly in
different intermediate steps) such that both end up identical, then
rev-list chooses only one branch. But when we filter history, we want to
keep both branches. Therefore, we must use --full-history.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We can use git rev-list --parents when we list the commits to rewrite.
It is not necessary to run git rev-list --parents for each commit in the
loop.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With git-filter-branch --subdirectory-filter <subdirectory> you can
get at the history, as seen by a certain subdirectory. The history
of the rewritten branch will only contain commits that touched that
subdirectory, and the subdirectory will be rewritten to be the new
project root.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently filter-branch exports GIT_DIR only if it is an
relative path but git-sh-setup might also set GIT_DIR to an
absolute path that is not exported yet. Additionally export
GIT_WORK_TREE with GIT_DIR to ensure that cwd is used as
working tree even for bare repositories.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The map() function can be used by filters to map a commit id to its
rewritten id. Such a mapping may not exist, in which case the identity
mapping is used (the commit is returned unchanged).
In the rewrite loop, this mapping is also needed, but was done
explicitly in the same way. Use the map() function instead.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A subset of commits in a branch used to be specified by options (-k, -r)
as well as the branch tip itself (-s). It is more natural (for git users)
to specify revision ranges like 'master..next' instead. This makes it so.
If no range is specified it defaults to 'HEAD'.
As a consequence, the new name of the filtered branch must be the first
non-option argument. All remaining arguments are passed to 'git rev-list'
unmodified.
The tip of the branch that gets filtered is implied: It is the first
commit that git rev-list would print for the specified range.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The option '-k' says that the given commit and _all_ of its ancestors
are kept as-is.
However, if a to-be-rewritten commit branched from an ancestor of an
ancestor of a commit given with '-k', filter-branch would fail.
Example:
A - B
\
C
If filter-branch was called with '-k B -s C', it would actually keep
B (and A as its parent), but would rewrite C, and its parent.
Noticed by Johannes Sixt.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The expression $((i+1)) is not portable at all: even some bash versions
do not grok it. So do not use it.
Noticed by Jonas Fonseca.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
stdin is the list of commits when the env, tree and index
filter are executed. The filters are not supposed to read
anything from stdin so the best is to give them /dev/null
for reading.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This script is derived from Pasky's cg-admin-rewritehist.
In fact, it _is_ the same script, minimally adapted to work without cogito.
It _should_ be able to perform the same tasks, even if only relying on
core-git programs.
All the work is Pasky's, just the adaption is mine.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Hopefully-signed-off-by: Petr "cogito master" Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
