Commit Staged (Amend) asks for new commit message

[chrmarti]

• VSCode Version: Code - Insiders 1.17.0-insider (a5210bc, 2017-09-26T05:24:48.911Z)
• OS Version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.15063
• Extensions: none

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Testing #34963

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Stage some change
2. Commit Staged (Amend)
3. 🐛 I'm asked for a new commit message without the existing one as the default. I usually want to keep the existing one.

[pradeepmurugesan]

@joaomoreno yeah may be we can add an option to keep the older message. I mean prefill the text box with the latest commit message..

[ADTC]

I'm assuming this is not in version 1.18.1.

Can I expect this in 1.18.2? Because I'm looking for this to amend the commit properly (both the diff and the message). I keep having to go back to the command line and issue git commit --amend because VSCode's Commit Staged (Amend) option shows a blank message.

[joaomoreno]

No, this will be in 1.19.

[nzjony]

I upgrade to 1.19, and this works, however we use gerrit which has a Change-Id in the commit message, and the newline is removed when added to the commit message box. Which means when I upload the change to gerrit, it becomes a new patchset.
Can this please not remove the newlines.

[joaomoreno]

I see... I created this to track that issue: #40295