Re: I want to release a "git-1.0"

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