Pat, we haven't heard from you for a long time.  Are you still
around and interested in helping us by maintaining git-gui?

Otherwise we may have to start recruiting a volunteer or two to take
this over.

Thanks.

Orgad Shaneh <org...@gmail.com> writes:

> 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 <org...@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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