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1#!/bin/sh
2#
3# Rewrite revision history
4# Copyright (c) Petr Baudis, 2006
5# Minimal changes to "port" it to core-git (c) Johannes Schindelin, 2007
6#
7# Lets you rewrite GIT revision history by creating a new branch from
8# your current branch by applying custom filters on each revision.
9# Those filters can modify each tree (e.g. removing a file or running
10# a perl rewrite on all files) or information about each commit.
11# Otherwise, all information (including original commit times or merge
12# information) will be preserved.
13#
14# The command takes the new branch name as a mandatory argument and
15# the filters as optional arguments. If you specify no filters, the
16# commits will be recommitted without any changes, which would normally
17# have no effect and result with the new branch pointing to the same
18# branch as your current branch. (Nevertheless, this may be useful in
19# the future for compensating for some Git bugs or such, therefore
20# such a usage is permitted.)
21#
22# WARNING! The rewritten history will have different ids for all the
23# objects and will not converge with the original branch. You will not
24# be able to easily push and distribute the rewritten branch. Please do
25# not use this command if you do not know the full implications, and
26# avoid using it anyway - do not do what a simple single commit on top
27# of the current version would fix.
28#
29# Always verify that the rewritten version is correct before disposing
30# the original branch.
31#
32# Note that since this operation is extensively I/O expensive, it might
33# be a good idea to do it off-disk, e.g. on tmpfs. Reportedly the speedup
34# is very noticeable.
35#
36# OPTIONS
37# -------
38# -d TEMPDIR:: The path to the temporary tree used for rewriting
39# When applying a tree filter, the command needs to temporary
40# checkout the tree to some directory, which may consume
41# considerable space in case of large projects. By default it
42# does this in the '.git-rewrite/' directory but you can override
43# that choice by this parameter.
44#
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45# Filters
46# ~~~~~~~
47# The filters are applied in the order as listed below. The COMMAND
48# argument is always evaluated in shell using the 'eval' command.
49# The $GIT_COMMIT environment variable is permanently set to contain
50# the id of the commit being rewritten. The author/committer environment
51# variables are set before the first filter is run.
52#
53# A 'map' function is available that takes an "original sha1 id" argument
54# and outputs a "rewritten sha1 id" if the commit has been already
55# rewritten, fails otherwise; the 'map' function can return several
56# ids on separate lines if your commit filter emitted multiple commits
57# (see below).
58#
59# --env-filter COMMAND:: The filter for modifying environment
60# This is the filter for modifying the environment in which
61# the commit will be performed. Specifically, you might want
62# to rewrite the author/committer name/email/time environment
63# variables (see `git-commit` for details). Do not forget to
64# re-export the variables.
65#
66# --tree-filter COMMAND:: The filter for rewriting tree (and its contents)
67# This is the filter for rewriting the tree and its contents.
68# The COMMAND argument is evaluated in shell with the working
69# directory set to the root of the checked out tree. The new tree
70# is then used as-is (new files are auto-added, disappeared files
71# are auto-removed - .gitignore files nor any other ignore rules
72# HAVE NO EFFECT!).
73#
74# --index-filter COMMAND:: The filter for rewriting index
75# This is the filter for rewriting the Git's directory index.
76# It is similar to the tree filter but does not check out the
77# tree, which makes it much faster. However, you must use the
78# lowlevel Git index manipulation commands to do your work.
79#
80# --parent-filter COMMAND:: The filter for rewriting parents
81# This is the filter for rewriting the commit's parent list.
82# It will receive the parent string on stdin and shall output
83# the new parent string on stdout. The parent string is in
84# format accepted by `git-commit-tree`: empty for initial
85# commit, "-p parent" for a normal commit and "-p parent1
86# -p parent2 -p parent3 ..." for a merge commit.
87#
88# --msg-filter COMMAND:: The filter for rewriting commit message
89# This is the filter for rewriting the commit messages.
90# The COMMAND argument is evaluated in shell with the original
91# commit message on standard input; its standard output is
92# is used as the new commit message.
93#
94# --commit-filter COMMAND:: The filter for performing the commit
95# If this filter is passed, it will be called instead of the
96# `git-commit-tree` command, with those arguments:
97#
98# TREE_ID [-p PARENT_COMMIT_ID]...
99#
100# and the log message on stdin. The commit id is expected on
101# stdout. As a special extension, the commit filter may emit
102# multiple commit ids; in that case, all of them will be used
103# as parents instead of the original commit in further commits.
104#
105# --tag-name-filter COMMAND:: The filter for rewriting tag names.
106# If this filter is passed, it will be called for every tag ref
107# that points to a rewritten object (or to a tag object which
108# points to a rewritten object). The original tag name is passed
109# via standard input, and the new tag name is expected on standard
110# output.
111#
112# The original tags are not deleted, but can be overwritten;
113# use "--tag-name-filter=cat" to simply update the tags. In this
114# case, be very careful and make sure you have the old tags
115# backed up in case the conversion has run afoul.
116#
117# Note that there is currently no support for proper rewriting of
118# tag objects; in layman terms, if the tag has a message or signature
119# attached, the rewritten tag won't have it. Sorry. (It is by
120# definition impossible to preserve signatures at any rate, though.)
121#
122# EXAMPLE USAGE
123# -------------
124# Suppose you want to remove a file (containing confidential information
125# or copyright violation) from all commits:
126#
127# git-filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm filename' newbranch
128#
129# A significantly faster version:
130#
131# git-filter-branch --index-filter 'git-update-index --remove filename' newbranch
132#
133# Now, you will get the rewritten history saved in the branch 'newbranch'
134# (your current branch is left untouched).
135#
136# To "etch-graft" a commit to the revision history (set a commit to be
137# the parent of the current initial commit and propagate that):
138#
139# git-filter-branch --parent-filter sed\ 's/^$/-p graftcommitid/' newbranch
140#
141# (if the parent string is empty - therefore we are dealing with the
142# initial commit - add graftcommit as a parent). Note that this assumes
143# history with a single root (that is, no git-merge without common ancestors
144# happened). If this is not the case, use:
145#
146# git-filter-branch --parent-filter 'cat; [ "$GIT_COMMIT" = "COMMIT" ] && echo "-p GRAFTCOMMIT"' newbranch
147#
148# To remove commits authored by "Darl McBribe" from the history:
149#
150# git-filter-branch --commit-filter 'if [ "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME" = "Darl McBribe" ]; then shift; while [ -n "$1" ]; do shift; echo "$1"; shift; done; else git-commit-tree "$@"; fi' newbranch
151#
152# (the shift magic first throws away the tree id and then the -p
153# parameters). Note that this handles merges properly! In case Darl
154# committed a merge between P1 and P2, it will be propagated properly
155# and all children of the merge will become merge commits with P1,P2
156# as their parents instead of the merge commit.
157#
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158# To restrict rewriting to only part of the history, specify a revision
159# range in addition to the new branch name. The new branch name will
160# point to the top-most revision that a 'git rev-list' of this range
161# will print.
162#
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163# Consider this history:
164#
165# D--E--F--G--H
166# / /
167# A--B-----C
168#
2766ce28 169# To rewrite commits D,E,F,G,H, use:
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2766ce28 171# git-filter-branch ... new-H C..H
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172#
173# To rewrite commits E,F,G,H, use one of these:
174#
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175# git-filter-branch ... new-H C..H --not D
176# git-filter-branch ... new-H D..H --not C
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177
178# Testsuite: TODO
179
180set -e
181
2766ce28 182USAGE="git-filter-branch [-d TEMPDIR] [FILTERS] DESTBRANCH [REV-RANGE]"
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183. git-sh-setup
184
185map()
186{
187 [ -r "$workdir/../map/$1" ] || return 1
188 cat "$workdir/../map/$1"
189}
190
191# When piped a commit, output a script to set the ident of either
192# "author" or "committer
193
194set_ident () {
195 lid="$(echo "$1" | tr "A-Z" "a-z")"
196 uid="$(echo "$1" | tr "a-z" "A-Z")"
197 pick_id_script='
198 /^'$lid' /{
199 s/'\''/'\''\\'\'\''/g
200 h
201 s/^'$lid' \([^<]*\) <[^>]*> .*$/\1/
202 s/'\''/'\''\'\'\''/g
203 s/.*/export GIT_'$uid'_NAME='\''&'\''/p
204
205 g
206 s/^'$lid' [^<]* <\([^>]*\)> .*$/\1/
207 s/'\''/'\''\'\'\''/g
208 s/.*/export GIT_'$uid'_EMAIL='\''&'\''/p
209
210 g
211 s/^'$lid' [^<]* <[^>]*> \(.*\)$/\1/
212 s/'\''/'\''\'\'\''/g
213 s/.*/export GIT_'$uid'_DATE='\''&'\''/p
214
215 q
216 }
217 '
218
219 LANG=C LC_ALL=C sed -ne "$pick_id_script"
220 # Ensure non-empty id name.
221 echo "[ -n \"\$GIT_${uid}_NAME\" ] || export GIT_${uid}_NAME=\"\${GIT_${uid}_EMAIL%%@*}\""
222}
223
224# list all parent's object names for a given commit
225get_parents () {
226 git-rev-list -1 --parents "$1" | sed "s/^[0-9a-f]*//"
227}
228
229tempdir=.git-rewrite
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230filter_env=
231filter_tree=
232filter_index=
233filter_parent=
234filter_msg=cat
235filter_commit='git-commit-tree "$@"'
236filter_tag_name=
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237while case "$#" in 0) usage;; esac
238do
239 case "$1" in
240 --)
241 shift
242 break
243 ;;
244 -*)
245 ;;
246 *)
247 break;
248 esac
249
250 # all switches take one argument
251 ARG="$1"
252 case "$#" in 1) usage ;; esac
253 shift
254 OPTARG="$1"
255 shift
256
257 case "$ARG" in
258 -d)
259 tempdir="$OPTARG"
260 ;;
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261 --env-filter)
262 filter_env="$OPTARG"
263 ;;
264 --tree-filter)
265 filter_tree="$OPTARG"
266 ;;
267 --index-filter)
268 filter_index="$OPTARG"
269 ;;
270 --parent-filter)
271 filter_parent="$OPTARG"
272 ;;
273 --msg-filter)
274 filter_msg="$OPTARG"
275 ;;
276 --commit-filter)
277 filter_commit="$OPTARG"
278 ;;
279 --tag-name-filter)
280 filter_tag_name="$OPTARG"
281 ;;
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282 *)
283 usage
284 ;;
285 esac
286done
287
288dstbranch="$1"
2766ce28 289shift
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290test -n "$dstbranch" || die "missing branch name"
291git-show-ref "refs/heads/$dstbranch" 2> /dev/null &&
292 die "branch $dstbranch already exists"
293
294test ! -e "$tempdir" || die "$tempdir already exists, please remove it"
295mkdir -p "$tempdir/t"
296cd "$tempdir/t"
297workdir="$(pwd)"
298
299case "$GIT_DIR" in
300/*)
301 ;;
302*)
303 export GIT_DIR="$(pwd)/../../$GIT_DIR"
304 ;;
305esac
306
307export GIT_INDEX_FILE="$(pwd)/../index"
308git-read-tree # seed the index file
309
310ret=0
311
312
313mkdir ../map # map old->new commit ids for rewriting parents
314
2766ce28 315git-rev-list --reverse --topo-order --default HEAD "$@" >../revs
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316commits=$(cat ../revs | wc -l | tr -d " ")
317
318test $commits -eq 0 && die "Found nothing to rewrite"
319
320i=0
321while read commit; do
c12764b8 322 i=$(($i+1))
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323 printf "$commit ($i/$commits) "
324
325 git-read-tree -i -m $commit
326
327 export GIT_COMMIT=$commit
328 git-cat-file commit "$commit" >../commit
329
330 eval "$(set_ident AUTHOR <../commit)"
331 eval "$(set_ident COMMITTER <../commit)"
350d8575 332 eval "$filter_env" < /dev/null
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333
334 if [ "$filter_tree" ]; then
335 git-checkout-index -f -u -a
336 # files that $commit removed are now still in the working tree;
337 # remove them, else they would be added again
338 git-ls-files -z --others | xargs -0 rm -f
350d8575 339 eval "$filter_tree" < /dev/null
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340 git-diff-index -r $commit | cut -f 2- | tr '\n' '\0' | \
341 xargs -0 git-update-index --add --replace --remove
342 git-ls-files -z --others | \
343 xargs -0 git-update-index --add --replace --remove
344 fi
345
350d8575 346 eval "$filter_index" < /dev/null
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347
348 parentstr=
349 for parent in $(get_parents $commit); do
350 if [ -r "../map/$parent" ]; then
351 for reparent in $(cat "../map/$parent"); do
352 parentstr="$parentstr -p $reparent"
353 done
354 else
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355 # if it was not rewritten, take the original
356 parentstr="$parentstr -p $parent"
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357 fi
358 done
359 if [ "$filter_parent" ]; then
360 parentstr="$(echo "$parentstr" | eval "$filter_parent")"
361 fi
362
363 sed -e '1,/^$/d' <../commit | \
364 eval "$filter_msg" | \
365 sh -c "$filter_commit" git-commit-tree $(git-write-tree) $parentstr | \
366 tee ../map/$commit
367done <../revs
368
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369src_head=$(tail -n 1 ../revs)
370target_head=$(head -n 1 ../map/$src_head)
371case "$target_head" in
372'')
373 echo Nothing rewritten
374 ;;
375*)
376 git-update-ref refs/heads/"$dstbranch" $target_head
377 if [ $(cat ../map/$src_head | wc -l) -gt 1 ]; then
378 echo "WARNING: Your commit filter caused the head commit to expand to several rewritten commits. Only the first such commit was recorded as the current $dstbranch head but you will need to resolve the situation now (probably by manually merging the other commits). These are all the commits:" >&2
379 sed 's/^/ /' ../map/$src_head >&2
380 ret=1
381 fi
382 ;;
383esac
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384
385if [ "$filter_tag_name" ]; then
386 git-for-each-ref --format='%(objectname) %(objecttype) %(refname)' refs/tags |
387 while read sha1 type ref; do
388 ref="${ref#refs/tags/}"
389 # XXX: Rewrite tagged trees as well?
390 if [ "$type" != "commit" -a "$type" != "tag" ]; then
391 continue;
392 fi
393
394 if [ "$type" = "tag" ]; then
395 # Dereference to a commit
396 sha1t="$sha1"
397 sha1="$(git-rev-parse "$sha1"^{commit} 2>/dev/null)" || continue
398 fi
399
400 [ -f "../map/$sha1" ] || continue
401 new_sha1="$(cat "../map/$sha1")"
402 export GIT_COMMIT="$sha1"
403 new_ref="$(echo "$ref" | eval "$filter_tag_name")"
404
405 echo "$ref -> $new_ref ($sha1 -> $new_sha1)"
406
407 if [ "$type" = "tag" ]; then
408 # Warn that we are not rewriting the tag object itself.
409 warn "unreferencing tag object $sha1t"
410 fi
411
412 git-update-ref "refs/tags/$new_ref" "$new_sha1"
413 done
414fi
415
416cd ../..
417rm -rf "$tempdir"
418echo "Rewritten history saved to the $dstbranch branch"
419
420exit $ret