[PATCH 1/3] git-commit-script: get commit message from an existing one.

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Date

Jun 23, 2005, 23:27 UTC

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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
---
*** Linus, I suspect that date.c mishandles the raw date; I am
*** consistently getting 7 hours off and my machine runs in
*** US/Pacific (-0700) timezone.

 git-commit-script |   75 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-commit-script b/git-commit-script
--- a/git-commit-script
+++ b/git-commit-script
@@ -1,12 +1,37 @@
 #!/bin/sh
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2005 Linus Torvalds
+#
+
+usage () {
+    echo 'git commit [-m existing-commit] [<path>...]'
+    exit 1
+}
+
 : ${GIT_DIR=.git}
-if [ ! -d $GIT_DIR ]; then
+if [ ! -d "$GIT_DIR" ]; then
 	echo Not a git directory 1>&2
 	exit 1
 fi
+while case "$#" in 0) break ;; esac
+do
+    case "$1" in
+    -m) shift
+        case "$#" in
+	0) usage ;;
+	*) use_commit=`git-rev-parse "$1"` ||
+	   exit ;;
+	esac
+	;;
+    *)  break
+        ;;
+    esac
+    shift
+done
+
 git-update-cache -q --refresh -- "$@" || exit 1
 PARENTS="-p HEAD"
-if [ ! -r $GIT_DIR/HEAD ]; then
+if [ ! -r "$GIT_DIR/HEAD" ]; then
 	if [ -z "$(git-ls-files)" ]; then
 		echo Nothing to commit 1>&2
 		exit 1
@@ -20,7 +45,7 @@ if [ ! -r $GIT_DIR/HEAD ]; then
 	) > .editmsg
 	PARENTS=""
 else
-	if [ -f $GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD ]; then
+	if [ -f "$GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD" ]; then
 		echo "#"
 		echo "# It looks like your may be committing a MERGE."
 		echo "# If this is not correct, please remove the file"
@@ -28,8 +53,38 @@ else
 		echo "# and try again"
 		echo "#"
 		PARENTS="-p HEAD -p MERGE_HEAD"
-	fi > .editmsg
-	git-status-script >> .editmsg
+	elif test "$use_commit" != ""
+	then
+		pick_author_script='
+		/^author /{
+			h
+			s/^author \([^<]*\) <[^>]*> .*$/\1/
+			s/'\''/'\''\'\'\''/g
+			s/.*/GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='\''&'\''/p
+
+			g
+			s/^author [^<]* <\([^>]*\)> .*$/\1/
+			s/'\''/'\''\'\'\''/g
+			s/.*/GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL='\''&'\''/p
+
+			g
+			s/^author [^<]* <[^>]*> \(.*\)$/\1/
+			s/'\''/'\''\'\'\''/g
+			s/.*/GIT_AUTHOR_DATE='\''&'\''/p
+
+			q
+		}
+		'
+		set_author_env=`git-cat-file commit "$use_commit" |
+		sed -ne "$pick_author_script"`
+		eval "$set_author_env"
+		export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME
+		export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL
+		export GIT_AUTHOR_DATE
+		git-cat-file commit "$use_commit" |
+		sed -e '1,/^$/d'
+	fi >.editmsg
+	git-status-script >>.editmsg
 fi
 if [ "$?" != "0" ]
 then
@@ -37,13 +92,17 @@ then
 	rm .editmsg
 	exit 1
 fi
-${VISUAL:-${EDITOR:-vi}} .editmsg
+case "$use_commit" in
+'')
+	${VISUAL:-${EDITOR:-vi}} .editmsg
+	;;
+esac
 grep -v '^#' < .editmsg | git-stripspace > .cmitmsg
 [ -s .cmitmsg ] && 
 	tree=$(git-write-tree) &&
 	commit=$(cat .cmitmsg | git-commit-tree $tree $PARENTS) &&
-	echo $commit > $GIT_DIR/HEAD &&
-	rm -f -- $GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD
+	echo $commit > "$GIT_DIR/HEAD" &&
+	rm -f -- "$GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD"
 ret="$?"
 rm -f .cmitmsg .editmsg
 exit "$ret"
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