On Mar 2 2008 20:40, Johannes Schindelin wrote: >On Sun, 2 Mar 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> $ git-filter-branch --env-filter 'export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="";' b4caa441..HEAD >> Rewrite cf1d02ac074041f7e570ff206d87fb47ef2b2c34 (1/1)fatal: empty ident >> <user@xxxxxxxx> not allowed > >Well, I kinda expected people savvy enough to run filter-branch to have >set up the proper ident ;-) Nah, this is just the test case. The real scripts I use write author, email and log message to a file in the env-filter hook, call an editor where they can be arbitrarily changed, and then the rest of the env-filter and msg-filter hooks parse the text file back into the shell variables. So I am changing the ident of existing commits (postprocessing a non-git tree conversion). The problem is that some editors clear the terminal window (in other words, they are "full-screen"), so I did not get to see the filter-branch error message at all because the next editor invocation just popped in. Most importantly, git-filter-branch should STOP when it detects a problem, not try rewriting the next commit. -- 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
