From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: I want to release a "git-1.0" Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 17:52:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20050530221214.GA29556@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue May 31 02:48:03 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DcuvK-0001e2-Uf for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 31 May 2005 02:48:03 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261850AbVEaAuY (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 20:50:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261848AbVEaAuY (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 20:50:24 -0400 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:55467 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261850AbVEaAuP (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 20:50:15 -0400 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j4V0o6jA010181 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Mon, 30 May 2005 17:50:07 -0700 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j4V0o6od024869; Mon, 30 May 2005 17:50:06 -0700 To: Dave Jones In-Reply-To: <20050530221214.GA29556@redhat.com> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.40__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.109 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 30 May 2005, Dave Jones wrote: > > GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="John Doe" \ > GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="jdoe@foo.com" \ > git-commit-tree `git-write-tree` \ > -p $(cat .git/HEAD ) \ > < changelog.txt \ > > .git/HEAD You _really_ want to script this. Also, I'd seriously suggest you avoid using ".git/HEAD" _and_ writing to .git/HEAD in the same command. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't. So script it with something like #!/bin/sh export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="$1" export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="$2" tree=$(git-write-tree) || exit 1 commit=$(git-commit-tree $tree -p HEAD) || exit 1 echo $commit > .git/HEAD and now you can just do commit-as "John Doe" "jdoe@foo.com" < changelog.txt or something like that. The git commands really are designed to be scripted. Linus