While replace refs are much more general than grafts, it seems the two
main uses are:
- grafts (change the recorded parents for a commit)
- svn cleanup (convert tagging commits into tag objects)
The latter one being quite a special case already.
The script below has helped me move from grafts to replace objects.
While not being super clean, something like it may be fit for contrib.
I think we ought to help John Doe get along with parents, while we can
safely leave most more advanced operations to people who know how to
edit a raw object file. Putting that facility into "git-commit" seems to
be too encouraging, though - people would use replace when they should
use amend or rebase-i. I'd prefer a special git-replace mode (be it
"--graft" or "--graft-commit") which does just what my script does. We
could add things like "--commit-tag" later, a full blown
"object-factory" seems like overkill.
Michael
--->%---
#!/bin/sh
die () {
echo "$@"
rm -f "$commitfile"
exit 1
}
warn () {
echo "$@"
}
test $# -gt 0 || die "Usage: $0 <commit> [<parent>]*"
for commit
do
git rev-parse --verify -q "$commit" >/dev/null || die "Cannot parse
$commit."
test x$(git cat-file -t $commit) == "xcommit" || die "$commit is no
commit."
done
commit="$1"
shift
commitfile=$(mktemp)
git cat-file commit "$commit" | while read a b
do
if test "$a" != "parent"
then
echo $a $b
fi
if test "$a" == "tree"
then
for parent
do
echo "parent $(git rev-parse $parent)"
done
fi
done >$commitfile
hash=$(git hash-object -t commit -w "$commitfile") || die "Cannot create
commit object."
git replace "$commit" $hash
rm -f $commitfile
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