If filters use variables with the same name as variables used in the script the script breaks. Executing the filters in a separate process prevents accidential modification of the variables in the main process. Signed-off-by: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@xxxxxxx> --- This one goes on top of the last patch, adding the < /dev/null. Example: % git filter-branch --tree-filter 'commit=foo' bar 94ddd5151901a2b62820facc1bcf578abf842c8a (1/2) fatal: ambiguous argument 'foo': unknown revision or path not in the working tree. Use '--' to separate paths from revisions fatal: ambiguous argument 'foo': unknown revision or path not in the working tree. Use '--' to separate paths from revisions 94ddd5151901a2b62820facc1bcf578abf842c8a [..] head: cannot open `../map/81208e18e22e0f1c7c73a4ea5bbd5150c0ee65c2' for reading: No such file or directory usage: git-update-ref [-m <reason>] (-d <refname> <value> | [--no-deref] <refname> <value> [<oldval>]) --- git-filter-branch.sh | 18 +++++++++--------- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-filter-branch.sh b/git-filter-branch.sh index 73e7c01..b446011 100644 --- a/git-filter-branch.sh +++ b/git-filter-branch.sh @@ -54,9 +54,9 @@ # Filters # ~~~~~~~ # The filters are applied in the order as listed below. The COMMAND -# argument is always evaluated in shell using the 'eval' command. -# The $GIT_COMMIT environment variable is permanently set to contain -# the id of the commit being rewritten. The author/committer environment +# argument is always evaluated in shell using sh -c "$filter". The +# $GIT_COMMIT environment variable is permanently set to contain the id +# of the commit being rewritten. The author/committer environment # variables are set before the first filter is run. # # A 'map' function is available that takes an "original sha1 id" argument @@ -349,21 +349,21 @@ while read commit; do eval "$(set_ident AUTHOR <../commit)" eval "$(set_ident COMMITTER <../commit)" - eval "$filter_env" < /dev/null + sh -c "$filter_env" < /dev/null if [ "$filter_tree" ]; then git-checkout-index -f -u -a # files that $commit removed are now still in the working tree; # remove them, else they would be added again git-ls-files -z --others | xargs -0 rm -f - eval "$filter_tree" < /dev/null + sh -c "$filter_tree" < /dev/null git-diff-index -r $commit | cut -f 2- | tr '\n' '\0' | \ xargs -0 git-update-index --add --replace --remove git-ls-files -z --others | \ xargs -0 git-update-index --add --replace --remove fi - eval "$filter_index" < /dev/null + sh -c "$filter_index" < /dev/null parentstr= for parent in $(get_parents $commit); do @@ -376,11 +376,11 @@ while read commit; do fi done if [ "$filter_parent" ]; then - parentstr="$(echo "$parentstr" | eval "$filter_parent")" + parentstr="$(echo "$parentstr" | sh -c "$filter_parent")" fi sed -e '1,/^$/d' <../commit | \ - eval "$filter_msg" | \ + sh -c "$filter_msg" | \ sh -c "$filter_commit" git-commit-tree $(git-write-tree) $parentstr | \ tee ../map/$commit done <../revs @@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ if [ "$filter_tag_name" ]; then [ -f "../map/$sha1" ] || continue new_sha1="$(cat "../map/$sha1")" export GIT_COMMIT="$sha1" - new_ref="$(echo "$ref" | eval "$filter_tag_name")" + new_ref="$(echo "$ref" | sh -c "$filter_tag_name")" echo "$ref -> $new_ref ($sha1 -> $new_sha1)" -- 1.5.2.1.860.g78ab5-dirty - 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