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authorLibravatar Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>2007-07-05 17:07:48 +0100
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2007-07-05 22:12:42 -0700
commit6cb93bf478e7dd6253c9a644aff8758ce9aacf49 (patch)
tree442952b15ddda8875c17f23e5b3c4b104922102c
parentgit-stash: allow more descriptive reminder message when saving (diff)
downloadtgif-6cb93bf478e7dd6253c9a644aff8758ce9aacf49.tar.xz
filter-branch documentation: clarify which filters are eval'ed
All filters, except the commit filter, are evaluated. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt3
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
index 219a81db0c..eaea82d0a6 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
@@ -50,7 +50,8 @@ Filters
~~~~~~~
The filters are applied in the order as listed below. The <command>
-argument is always evaluated in shell using the 'eval' command.
+argument is always evaluated in shell using the 'eval' command (with the
+notable exception of the commit filter, for technical reasons).
Prior to that, the $GIT_COMMIT environment variable will be set to contain
the id of the commit being rewritten. Also, GIT_AUTHOR_NAME,
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL, GIT_AUTHOR_DATE, GIT_COMMITTER_NAME, GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL,