On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 11:21:36PM -0500, Adam Mercer wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to use git filter-branch to rewrite the author information > on an repo that was imported from CVS a while ago, the commits I'm > trying to rewrite are as follows: > > commit 2cdeb25148f02b35391bd80a2c4c1876d7b8b840 Author: <ram> Date: > Wed Dec 22 13:36:01 2004 +0000 > > modify style > > I'm trying to modify <ram> to be replaced with my name and email > address. To do this I've been trying to use the following command > > $ git filter-branch --env-filter ' an="$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME" > am="$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL" if [ "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL" = "ram"]; then > an="Adam Mercer" am="ramercer@xxxxxxxxx" fi export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=$an > export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=$am ' > > however when I run this I get loads of errors of the form: > > Rewrite 18242fa722ff393e7fce78e05f37fa7c3b3825e1 > (1/216)/opt/local/libexec/git-core/git-filter-branch: line 307: [: > missing `]' > > Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? I'm running git-1.6.2.2. You need a white space between "ram" and ]. Mike -- 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