From 2d412d74047922707ac7a34eded5b2a08b044892 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alberto Griggio <agriggio@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 22:55:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] metadata: do not copy exif rotate info from the original
 image -- it might just be plain wrong

(cherry picked from commit 8f14684588b3c0aec1aab37f4225c99954f6f587)
---
 rtengine/metadata.cc | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/rtengine/metadata.cc b/rtengine/metadata.cc
index 35ffb8ad5..7e3bdbf05 100644
--- a/rtengine/metadata.cc
+++ b/rtengine/metadata.cc
@@ -187,6 +187,11 @@ void Exiv2Metadata::saveToImage(const Glib::ustring &path) const
     dst->readMetadata();
     if (image_.get()) {
         dst->setMetadata(*image_);
+        auto it =
+            dst->exifData().findKey(Exiv2::ExifKey("Exif.Image.Orientation"));
+        if (it != dst->exifData().end()) {
+            dst->exifData().erase(it);
+        }
         if (merge_xmp_) {
             do_merge_xmp(dst.get());
         }