On 11-01-14 23:48, Jakub Narebski wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, Maaartin-1 wrote: >> On 11-01-14 09:49, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >>> Some tweaks suggested by Maaartin: >>> [side note: please do not prune the cc list; I only stumbled on this >>> message in the online archive by luck] >> >> What could I have done about it? I didn't received it by email and >> answered using post.gmane.org. There's no way to add CC there. If I'd >> wrote an email instead, it wouldn't be placed in the thread. > > In a good newsreader, like e.g. Gnus from GNU Emacs, you have option > to do 'reply all via email', which includes also git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, > i.e. mailing list from which gmane newsgroup is created. That's what > I do nowadays (usually). I hate using Emacs for too many things. However, I'm starting to use Thunderbird as newsreader, and it's quite OK. >> I'd go the other way round and use "-i" so I'd need only one file. Using >> a shell variable instead would be even better, s. below. > > No, using shell variable for storing commit object is *not* a good idea. > Either save it to temporary file, where you can edit it using editor of > your choice, or use pipeline. I see that the line-breaks get (for whatever reason) replaced by blanks, sorry for the noise. >>> +$ sed "/^tree / a \\ >>> +parent $(git rev-parse v2.4)" <tmp >new <4> >> >> $ first_commit = $($ echo $first_commit | >> sed "/^tree / a \\ >> parent $(git rev-parse v2.4)") <4> >> >> Unfortunately, the line got too long. For sed unaware people like me it >> may not be obvious that a line break is required. > > No, it is not required, I think. You're right, sorry again. > If you don't use temporary file, which you can edit, you can use pipeline > instead: > > $ new_commit=$(git cat-file commit $first_commit | > sed -e "/^tree / a\\parent $(git rev-parse v2.4)" | > git hash-object -t commit -w --stdin > > $ git replace $first_commit $new_commit I know, I just thought, using such a pipe is not very enlightening, but it's actually quite easy to follow. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html