Hi Igor! Thanks on for thoroughly searching the mailing list and on your suggestions. I hope that someone will come up with a fix that both preserves the author details and date correctly. Regards, Juraj On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 11:54 PM, Igor Djordjevic <igor.d.djordjevic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Juraj, > > On 23/03/2017 15:26, Juraj Oršulić wrote: >> Hello Igor (and others), I have something else to report about the >> commit amend functionality in git-gui, and I think it could be >> related to my original question. It seems that git-gui messes up >> international signs on amending. >> >> E.g. I use git gui to make a commit, and all is OK: >> >> commit ef24b133dda6c18b8ef01b1a38f9e049d87f2021 >> Author: Juraj Oršulić <juraj.orsulic@xxxxxx> >> >> I open git gui again, click "Amend Last Commit", press "Commit", and I >> get this in git log: >> >> commit 6e09ff9edcef863d92f02cf86e0307c27171aec0 >> Author: Juraj OrÅ¡uliÄ<U+0087> <juraj.orsulic@xxxxxx> >> >> >> Does anyone have any idea what could be the cause? >> >> I tested this on Ubuntu 16.04 and HEAD vearsion of git-gui on >> http://repo.or.cz/git-gui.git, currently 0.21.0.5.g5ab72. > > Yes, I can confirm this. > > git version 2.12.1.windows.1 > git-gui version 0.21.GITGUI > Tcl/Tk version 8.6.6 > > That said, it seems there are quite some topics about it, like [1], > [2], [3] and [4], but the most interesting one could be [5], having > some kind of a "workaround" at the end as well. > > I`ve tried replacing the "commit.tcl" file as proposed, and it seems > to work correctly -- just please do note that it actually reverts the > file in question to an older version, maybe (re)introducing other > bugs while fixing this specific one, so it could be something you may > want to investigate into a bit more before actually using it for good. > > P.S. It might be a good idea to start a new topic in situations like > this (send out a new e-mail instead of a reply), keeping unrelated > discussions separated and helping interested parties spotting the new > topic more easily. > > Regards, > Buga > > [1] https://public-inbox.org/git/588ac268-0a1b-6787-e6a1-4164e7e9a784@xxxxxxxx/T/#ea05ebbde162f9c230a2cc4f7099363aed68768f6 > [2] https://public-inbox.org/git/52E1627956F20E458D872C5961027EDC654FE17C@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#m0baea8c76e79f25bf92ca0deabe38efec2ee168d > [3] https://public-inbox.org/git/50913C58.2000200@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#m72664106ad3070235ea2628b61fc6203fbb5563e > [4] https://public-inbox.org/git/20071212091744.GA5377@xxxxxxx/T/#m8490dd348389b4eea82eb1bdaab69227c946de19 > [5] https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/761