Re: [PATCH 2/2] rebase -i: use some kind of config file to save author information

[Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>]

On Monday 22 June 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> rebase -i: AUTHOR_{NAME,EMAIL,DATE} are already available in HEAD; use
> it.
>
> This only changes the codepath of "rebase -i --continue" that auto-amends
> the HEAD commit with the change user made but forgot to "commit --amend".
>
>  git-rebase--interactive.sh |    3 +--
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/git-rebase--interactive.sh b/git-rebase--interactive.sh
> index f96d887..b8608be 100755
> --- a/git-rebase--interactive.sh
> +++ b/git-rebase--interactive.sh
> @@ -522,8 +522,7 @@ first and then run 'git rebase --continue' again."
>  				git reset --soft HEAD^ ||
>  				die "Cannot rewind the HEAD"
>  			fi
> -			export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL GIT_AUTHOR_DATE &&
> -			git commit --no-verify -F "$DOTEST"/message -e || {
> +			git commit --no-verify -c HEAD || {
>  				test -n "$amend" && git reset --soft $amend
>  				die "Could not commit staged changes."
>  			}

This patch would use the message from HEAD instead of "$DOTEST"/message, but 
it looks like we are changing "$DOTEST"/message sometimes with 
the "make_squash_message" function.

Best regards,
Christian.