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filter-branch documentation: clarify which filters are eval'ed
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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>
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Johannes Schindelin authored and Junio C Hamano committed Jul 6, 2007
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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,
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