Re: [PATCH] git-filter-branch: avoid collisions with variables in eval'ed commands

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On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 03:13:01PM -0600, newren@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Avoid using simple variable names like 'i', since user commands are eval'ed
> and may clash with and overwrite our values.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx>

Almost-acked-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx>

But:

>-i=0
>+git_filter_branch_count=0

Why branch_count? It counts commits, not branches, doesn't it?


> I discovered this a few months ago, but apparently never got around to
> sending it earlier.  Anyway, without this patch in a repository with a
> file called 'world' I see the following behavior:

Some hints:

> $ git filter-branch --tree-filter '
>    for i in $(find . -type f); do

This won't work right if your filenames contain $IFS.

>      if ( file $i | grep "\btext\b" > /dev/null ); then

if [[ "$(file $i)" == *text* ]] might run noticeably faster (though is
slightly less precise). Having a filename-keyed cache of file types even
more so.

>        perl -i -ple "s/\\\$(Id|Date|Source|Header|CVSHeader|Author|Revision):[^\
> \$]*\\$/\\$\1\\$/" $i;

Using '\'' instead of " could save you quite a few backslashes in net
count.

>      fi;
>    done ' -- --all

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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in the morning feeling just terrible. -- Jean Kerr
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