Re: What can cause empty GIT_AUTHOR_NAME for 'git filter-branch --tree-filter' on Solaris?

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 02:36:23PM +0400, Ilya Basin wrote:

The culprit is bad $PATH :
When git-filter-branch runs, for some reason two new entries precede
/usr/bin in it:
     /tmp/777/.ilya-sparc/bin
     /home/tester/.ilya/opt/SNiFF-3.2.1/bin
     /export/home/testora/app/testora/product/11.2.0/client_32/bin
    +/usr/xpg6/bin
    +/usr/xpg4/bin
     /usr/bin
     /home/tester/apache-ant-1.7.1/bin
     /usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.5.0//bin

And /usr/xpg6/bin/tr fails to make "AUTHOR" lowercase.

Hmph. Those are controlled by SANE_TOOL_PATH at git's build time, with
the intent that the xpg tools are less terrible than the ones in
/usr/bin on Solaris. But it sounds like that may not be the case. Yuck.

I don't have a Solaris box handy. Is there a way to make sequences like
A-Z work sanely with /usr/xpg6/bin/tr?

Do you have any LANG or locale settings? Sometimes those can affect
sequences. What does:

  echo AUTHOR | LANG=C LC_ALL=C /usr/xpg6/bin/tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'

do?

-Peff