doc: filter-branch does not require re-export of vars
authorAndreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Fri, 26 May 2017 17:36:54 +0000 (19:36 +0200)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sun, 28 May 2017 23:53:38 +0000 (08:53 +0900)
The function `set_ident` in `filter-branch` exported the variables
GIT_(AUTHOR|COMMITTER)_(NAME|EMAIL|DATE) at least since 6f6826c52b in 2007.
Therefore the filter scripts don't need to re-eport them again.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
index 0a09698c033fb2e1cdf68aa33eed4f109a034d5f..a78655d913253e042349a75ea7b7d7e85bb0f666 100644 (file)
@@ -86,8 +86,7 @@ OPTIONS
        This filter may be used if you only need to modify the environment
        in which the commit will be performed.  Specifically, you might
        want to rewrite the author/committer name/email/time environment
-       variables (see linkgit:git-commit-tree[1] for details).  Do not forget
-       to re-export the variables.
+       variables (see linkgit:git-commit-tree[1] for details).
 
 --tree-filter <command>::
        This is the filter for rewriting the tree and its contents.
@@ -342,12 +341,10 @@ git filter-branch --env-filter '
        if test "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL" = "root@localhost"
        then
                GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=john@example.com
-               export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL
        fi
        if test "$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL" = "root@localhost"
        then
                GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL=john@example.com
-               export GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL
        fi
 ' -- --all
 --------------------------------------------------------