Johannes Sixt wrote: > diff --git a/git-filter-branch.sh b/git-filter-branch.sh > index 2688254..81392ad 100755 > --- a/git-filter-branch.sh > +++ b/git-filter-branch.sh > @@ -412,15 +412,17 @@ if [ "$filter_tag_name" ]; then > echo "$ref -> $new_ref ($sha1 -> $new_sha1)" > > if [ "$type" = "tag" ]; then > - new_sha1=$(git cat-file tag "$ref" | > + new_sha1=$( ( printf 'object %s\ntype commit\ntag %s\n' \ > + "$new_sha1" "$new_ref" > + git cat-file tag "$ref" | > sed -n \ > -e "1,/^$/{ > - s/^object .*/object $new_sha1/ > - s/^type .*/type commit/ > - s/^tag .*/tag $new_ref/ > + /^object /d > + /^type /d > + /^tag /d Junio complained that my initial version of this was fragile which has similarities with the above. Initially, I was blindly changing the first line to contain "object...", second line to "type...", etc. Would something like the following be equivalent _and_ clearer? Emphasis on "and" because both are necessary, not because I strongly feel it to be so. diff --git a/git-filter-branch.sh b/git-filter-branch.sh index a324cf0..11c5c04 100755 --- a/git-filter-branch.sh +++ b/git-filter-branch.sh @@ -419,9 +419,12 @@ if [ "$filter_tag_name" ]; then new_sha1=$(git cat-file tag "$ref" | sed -n \ -e "1,/^$/{ - s/^object .*/object $new_sha1/ - s/^type .*/type commit/ - s/^tag .*/tag $new_ref/ + /^object .*/c\\ +object $new_sha1 + /^type .*/c\\ +type commit + /^tag .*/c\\ +tag $new_ref }" \ -e '/^-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----/q' \ -e 'p' | -brandon -- 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