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[PATCH] git-gui: Do not reset author details on amend

From
Orgad Shaneh <orgads@gmail.com>
Date
May 5, 2016, 14:23 UTC
Message-ID
<1462458182-4488-1-git-send-email-orgads@gmail.com>

git commit --amend preserves the author details unless --reset-author is given.

git-gui discards the author details on amend.

Fix by reading the author details along with the commit message, and setting the appropriate environment variables required for preserving them.

Reported long ago in the mailing list[1].
[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/243921
Signed-off-by: Orgad Shaneh <orgads@gmail.com>
---
 git-gui/lib/commit.tcl | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
diff --git a/git-gui/lib/commit.tcl b/git-gui/lib/commit.tcl
index 864b687..60edf99 100644
--- a/git-gui/lib/commit.tcl
+++ b/git-gui/lib/commit.tcl
@@ -1,8 +1,13 @@
 # git-gui misc. commit reading/writing support
 # Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Shawn Pearce
 
+set author_name ""
+set author_email ""
+set author_date ""
+
 proc load_last_commit {} {
 	global HEAD PARENT MERGE_HEAD commit_type ui_comm
+	global author_name author_email author_date
 	global repo_config
 
 	if {[llength $PARENT] == 0} {
@@ -34,6 +39,10 @@ You are currently in the middle of a merge that has not been fully completed.  Y
 					lappend parents [string range $line 7 end]
 				} elseif {[string match {encoding *} $line]} {
 					set enc [string tolower [string range $line 9 end]]
+				} elseif {[regexp "author (.*)\\s<(.*)>\\s(\\d.*$)" $line all name email time]} {
+					set author_name $name
+					set author_email $email
+					set author_date $time
 				}
 			}
 			set msg [read $fd]
@@ -107,8 +116,12 @@ proc do_signoff {} {
 
 proc create_new_commit {} {
 	global commit_type ui_comm
+	global author_name author_email author_date
 
 	set commit_type normal
+	set author_name ""
+	set author_email ""
+	set author_date ""
 	$ui_comm delete 0.0 end
 	$ui_comm edit reset
 	$ui_comm edit modified false
@@ -327,6 +340,7 @@ proc commit_committree {fd_wt curHEAD msg_p} {
 	global ui_comm selected_commit_type
 	global file_states selected_paths rescan_active
 	global repo_config
+	global env author_name author_email author_date
 
 	gets $fd_wt tree_id
 	if {[catch {close $fd_wt} err]} {
@@ -366,6 +380,11 @@ A rescan will be automatically started now.
 		}
 	}
 
+	if {$author_name ne ""} {
+		set env(GIT_AUTHOR_NAME) $author_name
+		set env(GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL) $author_email
+		set env(GIT_AUTHOR_DATE) $author_date
+	}
 	# -- Create the commit.
 	#
 	set cmd [list commit-tree $tree_id]
-- 
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  3. Orgad ShanehMay 18, 2016
  4. Orgad ShanehJul 10, 2016
  5. Orgad ShanehSep 26, 2016
  6. Junio C HamanoSep 26, 2016
  7. Orgad ShanehSep 27, 2016
  8. Junio C HamanoSep 27, 2016
  9. Orgad ShanehSep 27, 2016
  10. Stefan BellerSep 27, 2016

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