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1 #!/bin/sh
3 # Rewrite revision history
4 # Copyright (c) Petr Baudis, 2006
5 # Minimal changes to "port" it to core-git (c) Johannes Schindelin, 2007
7 # Lets you rewrite the revision history of the current branch, creating
8 # a new branch. You can specify a number of filters to modify the commits,
9 # files and trees.
11 USAGE="git-filter-branch [-d TEMPDIR] [FILTERS] [REV-RANGE]"
12 . git-sh-setup
14 warn () {
15 echo "$*" >&2
18 map()
20 # if it was not rewritten, take the original
21 if test -r "$workdir/../map/$1"
22 then
23 cat "$workdir/../map/$1"
24 else
25 echo "$1"
29 # override die(): this version puts in an extra line break, so that
30 # the progress is still visible
32 die()
34 echo >&2
35 echo "$*" >&2
36 exit 1
39 # When piped a commit, output a script to set the ident of either
40 # "author" or "committer
42 set_ident () {
43 lid="$(echo "$1" | tr "A-Z" "a-z")"
44 uid="$(echo "$1" | tr "a-z" "A-Z")"
45 pick_id_script='
46 /^'$lid' /{
47 s/'\''/'\''\\'\'\''/g
49 s/^'$lid' \([^<]*\) <[^>]*> .*$/\1/
50 s/'\''/'\''\'\'\''/g
51 s/.*/export GIT_'$uid'_NAME='\''&'\''/p
54 s/^'$lid' [^<]* <\([^>]*\)> .*$/\1/
55 s/'\''/'\''\'\'\''/g
56 s/.*/export GIT_'$uid'_EMAIL='\''&'\''/p
59 s/^'$lid' [^<]* <[^>]*> \(.*\)$/\1/
60 s/'\''/'\''\'\'\''/g
61 s/.*/export GIT_'$uid'_DATE='\''&'\''/p
67 LANG=C LC_ALL=C sed -ne "$pick_id_script"
68 # Ensure non-empty id name.
69 echo "[ -n \"\$GIT_${uid}_NAME\" ] || export GIT_${uid}_NAME=\"\${GIT_${uid}_EMAIL%%@*}\""
72 tempdir=.git-rewrite
73 filter_env=
74 filter_tree=
75 filter_index=
76 filter_parent=
77 filter_msg=cat
78 filter_commit='git commit-tree "$@"'
79 filter_tag_name=
80 filter_subdir=
81 orig_namespace=refs/original/
82 force=
83 while case "$#" in 0) usage;; esac
85 case "$1" in
86 --)
87 shift
88 break
90 --force|-f)
91 shift
92 force=t
93 continue
95 -*)
98 break;
99 esac
101 # all switches take one argument
102 ARG="$1"
103 case "$#" in 1) usage ;; esac
104 shift
105 OPTARG="$1"
106 shift
108 case "$ARG" in
110 tempdir="$OPTARG"
112 --env-filter)
113 filter_env="$OPTARG"
115 --tree-filter)
116 filter_tree="$OPTARG"
118 --index-filter)
119 filter_index="$OPTARG"
121 --parent-filter)
122 filter_parent="$OPTARG"
124 --msg-filter)
125 filter_msg="$OPTARG"
127 --commit-filter)
128 filter_commit="$OPTARG"
130 --tag-name-filter)
131 filter_tag_name="$OPTARG"
133 --subdirectory-filter)
134 filter_subdir="$OPTARG"
136 --original)
137 orig_namespace="$OPTARG"
140 usage
142 esac
143 done
145 case "$force" in
147 rm -rf "$tempdir"
150 test -d "$tempdir" &&
151 die "$tempdir already exists, please remove it"
152 esac
153 mkdir -p "$tempdir/t" &&
154 tempdir="$(cd "$tempdir"; pwd)" &&
155 cd "$tempdir/t" &&
156 workdir="$(pwd)" ||
157 die ""
159 # Make sure refs/original is empty
160 git for-each-ref > "$tempdir"/backup-refs
161 while read sha1 type name
163 case "$force,$name" in
164 ,$orig_namespace*)
165 die "Namespace $orig_namespace not empty"
167 t,$orig_namespace*)
168 git update-ref -d "$name" $sha1
170 esac
171 done < "$tempdir"/backup-refs
173 export GIT_DIR GIT_WORK_TREE=.
175 # These refs should be updated if their heads were rewritten
177 git rev-parse --revs-only --symbolic "$@" |
178 while read ref
180 # normalize ref
181 case "$ref" in
182 HEAD)
183 ref="$(git symbolic-ref "$ref")"
185 refs/*)
188 ref="$(git for-each-ref --format='%(refname)' |
189 grep /"$ref")"
190 esac
192 git check-ref-format "$ref" && echo "$ref"
193 done > "$tempdir"/heads
195 test -s "$tempdir"/heads ||
196 die "Which ref do you want to rewrite?"
198 export GIT_INDEX_FILE="$(pwd)/../index"
199 git read-tree || die "Could not seed the index"
201 ret=0
203 # map old->new commit ids for rewriting parents
204 mkdir ../map || die "Could not create map/ directory"
206 case "$filter_subdir" in
208 git rev-list --reverse --topo-order --default HEAD \
209 --parents "$@"
212 git rev-list --reverse --topo-order --default HEAD \
213 --parents --full-history "$@" -- "$filter_subdir"
214 esac > ../revs || die "Could not get the commits"
215 commits=$(wc -l <../revs | tr -d " ")
217 test $commits -eq 0 && die "Found nothing to rewrite"
219 # Rewrite the commits
222 while read commit parents; do
223 i=$(($i+1))
224 printf "\rRewrite $commit ($i/$commits)"
226 case "$filter_subdir" in
228 git read-tree -i -m $commit
231 git read-tree -i -m $commit:"$filter_subdir"
232 esac || die "Could not initialize the index"
234 export GIT_COMMIT=$commit
235 git cat-file commit "$commit" >../commit ||
236 die "Cannot read commit $commit"
238 eval "$(set_ident AUTHOR <../commit)" ||
239 die "setting author failed for commit $commit"
240 eval "$(set_ident COMMITTER <../commit)" ||
241 die "setting committer failed for commit $commit"
242 eval "$filter_env" < /dev/null ||
243 die "env filter failed: $filter_env"
245 if [ "$filter_tree" ]; then
246 git checkout-index -f -u -a ||
247 die "Could not checkout the index"
248 # files that $commit removed are now still in the working tree;
249 # remove them, else they would be added again
250 git ls-files -z --others | xargs -0 rm -f
251 eval "$filter_tree" < /dev/null ||
252 die "tree filter failed: $filter_tree"
254 git diff-index -r $commit | cut -f 2- | tr '\n' '\0' | \
255 xargs -0 git update-index --add --replace --remove
256 git ls-files -z --others | \
257 xargs -0 git update-index --add --replace --remove
260 eval "$filter_index" < /dev/null ||
261 die "index filter failed: $filter_index"
263 parentstr=
264 for parent in $parents; do
265 for reparent in $(map "$parent"); do
266 parentstr="$parentstr -p $reparent"
267 done
268 done
269 if [ "$filter_parent" ]; then
270 parentstr="$(echo "$parentstr" | eval "$filter_parent")" ||
271 die "parent filter failed: $filter_parent"
274 sed -e '1,/^$/d' <../commit | \
275 eval "$filter_msg" > ../message ||
276 die "msg filter failed: $filter_msg"
277 sh -c "$filter_commit" "git commit-tree" \
278 $(git write-tree) $parentstr < ../message > ../map/$commit
279 done <../revs
281 # In case of a subdirectory filter, it is possible that a specified head
282 # is not in the set of rewritten commits, because it was pruned by the
283 # revision walker. Fix it by mapping these heads to the next rewritten
284 # ancestor(s), i.e. the boundaries in the set of rewritten commits.
286 # NEEDSWORK: we should sort the unmapped refs topologically first
287 while read ref
289 sha1=$(git rev-parse "$ref"^0)
290 test -f "$workdir"/../map/$sha1 && continue
291 # Assign the boundarie(s) in the set of rewritten commits
292 # as the replacement commit(s).
293 # (This would look a bit nicer if --not --stdin worked.)
294 for p in $( (cd "$workdir"/../map; ls | sed "s/^/^/") |
295 git rev-list $ref --boundary --stdin |
296 sed -n "s/^-//p")
298 map $p >> "$workdir"/../map/$sha1
299 done
300 done < "$tempdir"/heads
302 # Finally update the refs
304 _x40='[0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f]'
305 _x40="$_x40$_x40$_x40$_x40$_x40$_x40$_x40$_x40"
306 count=0
307 echo
308 while read ref
310 # avoid rewriting a ref twice
311 test -f "$orig_namespace$ref" && continue
313 sha1=$(git rev-parse "$ref"^0)
314 rewritten=$(map $sha1)
316 test $sha1 = "$rewritten" &&
317 warn "WARNING: Ref '$ref' is unchanged" &&
318 continue
320 case "$rewritten" in
322 echo "Ref '$ref' was deleted"
323 git update-ref -m "filter-branch: delete" -d "$ref" $sha1 ||
324 die "Could not delete $ref"
326 $_x40)
327 echo "Ref '$ref' was rewritten"
328 git update-ref -m "filter-branch: rewrite" \
329 "$ref" $rewritten $sha1 ||
330 die "Could not rewrite $ref"
333 # NEEDSWORK: possibly add -Werror, making this an error
334 warn "WARNING: '$ref' was rewritten into multiple commits:"
335 warn "$rewritten"
336 warn "WARNING: Ref '$ref' points to the first one now."
337 rewritten=$(echo "$rewritten" | head -n 1)
338 git update-ref -m "filter-branch: rewrite to first" \
339 "$ref" $rewritten $sha1 ||
340 die "Could not rewrite $ref"
342 esac
343 git update-ref -m "filter-branch: backup" "$orig_namespace$ref" $sha1
344 count=$(($count+1))
345 done < "$tempdir"/heads
347 # TODO: This should possibly go, with the semantics that all positive given
348 # refs are updated, and their original heads stored in refs/original/
349 # Filter tags
351 if [ "$filter_tag_name" ]; then
352 git for-each-ref --format='%(objectname) %(objecttype) %(refname)' refs/tags |
353 while read sha1 type ref; do
354 ref="${ref#refs/tags/}"
355 # XXX: Rewrite tagged trees as well?
356 if [ "$type" != "commit" -a "$type" != "tag" ]; then
357 continue;
360 if [ "$type" = "tag" ]; then
361 # Dereference to a commit
362 sha1t="$sha1"
363 sha1="$(git rev-parse "$sha1"^{commit} 2>/dev/null)" || continue
366 [ -f "../map/$sha1" ] || continue
367 new_sha1="$(cat "../map/$sha1")"
368 export GIT_COMMIT="$sha1"
369 new_ref="$(echo "$ref" | eval "$filter_tag_name")" ||
370 die "tag name filter failed: $filter_tag_name"
372 echo "$ref -> $new_ref ($sha1 -> $new_sha1)"
374 if [ "$type" = "tag" ]; then
375 # Warn that we are not rewriting the tag object itself.
376 warn "unreferencing tag object $sha1t"
379 git update-ref "refs/tags/$new_ref" "$new_sha1" ||
380 die "Could not write tag $new_ref"
381 done
384 cd ../..
385 rm -rf "$tempdir"
386 echo
387 test $count -gt 0 && echo "These refs were rewritten:"
388 git show-ref | grep ^"$orig_namespace"
390 exit $ret