From f6d855091e73fdab8a39185a8392b9d0df7ed46f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:16:07 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] filter-branch: stop depending on Perl

While git-filter-branch(1) is written as a shell script, the
`--state-branch` feature depends on Perl to save and extract the object
ID mappings. This can lead to subtle breakage though:

  - We execute `perl` directly without respecting the `PERL_PATH`
    configured by the distribution. As such, it may happen that we use
    the wrong version of Perl.

  - We install the script unchanged even if Perl isn't available at all
    on the system, so using `--state-branch` would lead to failure
    altogether in that case.

Fix this by dropping Perl and instead implementing the feature with
shell scripting exclusively.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 git-filter-branch.sh | 37 +++++++++++++++++++------------------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-filter-branch.sh b/git-filter-branch.sh
index 3a51d4507c..24fa317aaa 100755
--- a/git-filter-branch.sh
+++ b/git-filter-branch.sh
@@ -295,15 +295,18 @@ then
 	if test -n "$state_commit"
 	then
 		echo "Populating map from $state_branch ($state_commit)" 1>&2
-		perl -e'open(MAP, "-|", "git show $ARGV[0]:filter.map") or die;
-			while (<MAP>) {
-				m/(.*):(.*)/ or die;
-				open F, ">../map/$1" or die;
-				print F "$2" or die;
-				close(F) or die;
-			}
-			close(MAP) or die;' "$state_commit" \
-				|| die "Unable to load state from $state_branch:filter.map"
+
+		git show "$state_commit:filter.map" >"$tempdir"/filter-map ||
+			die "Unable to load state from $state_branch:filter.map"
+		while read line
+		do
+			case "$line" in
+			*:*)
+				echo "${line%:*}" >../map/"${line#*:}";;
+			*)
+				die "Unable to load state from $state_branch:filter.map";;
+			esac
+		done <"$tempdir"/filter-map
 	else
 		echo "Branch $state_branch does not exist. Will create" 1>&2
 	fi
@@ -633,15 +636,13 @@ if test -n "$state_branch"
 then
 	echo "Saving rewrite state to $state_branch" 1>&2
 	state_blob=$(
-		perl -e'opendir D, "../map" or die;
-			open H, "|-", "git hash-object -w --stdin" or die;
-			foreach (sort readdir(D)) {
-				next if m/^\.\.?$/;
-				open F, "<../map/$_" or die;
-				chomp($f = <F>);
-				print H "$_:$f\n" or die;
-			}
-			close(H) or die;' || die "Unable to save state")
+		for file in ../map/*
+		do
+			from_commit=$(basename "$file")
+			to_commit=$(cat "$file")
+			echo "$from_commit:$to_commit"
+		done | git hash-object -w --stdin || die "Unable to save state"
+	)
 	state_tree=$(printf '100644 blob %s\tfilter.map\n' "$state_blob" | git mktree)
 	if test -n "$state_commit"
 	then
-- 
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