Re: git alias quoting help

[shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com>]

BTW, just trying to get filter-branch to interpret the bash script
string correctly now and it still isn't working:

git filter-branch -f --prune-empty --index-filter "\
  git ls-files -s | \
  sed \"s-\\t\\\"*-&${1}-\" | \
  GIT_INDEX_FILE=\$GIT_INDEX_FILE.new \
  git update-index --index-info && \
    mv \$GIT_INDEX_FILE.new \$GIT_INDEX_FILE \
" HEAD

 I'm guessing bash is grabbing my actual bash shell is grabbing the
GIT_INDEX_FILE declaration for itself. If this is the case, I'm not
sure how to stop it - tried var\=\$var.new and that passes the '\='
which totally messes things up.

Rewrite ef54b77e59c7f4e18f00168ba88a8d2fee795802 (1/76)mv: cannot stat
`/<repo path>/.git-rewrite/t/../index.new': No such file or directory
index filter failed:   git ls-files -s |   sed
"s-\t\"*-&cookbooks/adjoin/-" |   GIT_INDEX_FILE=$GIT_INDEX_FILE.new
git update-index --index-info &&     mv $GIT_INDEX_FILE.new
$GIT_INDEX_FILE

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 12:13 AM, shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've also tried to make this a plain bash script (w/o the function or
> if statements and am failing at the same place). The issue seems to be
> with the quoting in the filter-branch | ls-files bit. Also, the end
> goal here is to be able to move a directory from one repo and keep the
> history. While this works if I do it at the command line, it's just
> too many steps (is tedious). Also, if there's a way to do the same
> thing with multiple directories in one shot, (or make this work with
> something like: cookbooks/{a,b,c} # as a parameter) that'd be perfect.
>
>   reapdir = "!f() { \
>     if [ -d "$1" ] ; then \
>       git filter-branch --prune-empty --subdirectory-filter "$1" -- --all && \
>       git gc --aggressive && \
>       git prune && \
>       git filter-branch -f --prune-empty --index-filter '\
>         git ls-files -s \
>           | sed \"s-\\t-&$1-\" \
>           | GIT_INDEX_FILE=$GIT_INDEX_FILE.new git update-index
> --index-info && \
>             mv $GIT_INDEX_FILE.new $GIT_INDEX_FILE'; \
>     else \
>       echo "No directory $1"; \
>     fi; }; \
>   f"