From: Kenneth Lorber <keni@his.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kenneth Lorber <keni@his.com>,
Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>,
Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 1/1] config: surface editor failure in exit code
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:19:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260817211936.2943278-2-keni@his.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260817211936.2943278-1-keni@his.com>
Teach git config --edit to show editor failure to the
parent process.
Add 2 tests to t1300 to check editor exiting successfully
or failing.
Signed-off-by: Kenneth Lorber <keni@his.com>
---
builtin/config.c | 5 +++--
t/t1300-config.sh | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/config.c b/builtin/config.c
index 0882899c3f..a166b2131e 100644
--- a/builtin/config.c
+++ b/builtin/config.c
@@ -1291,6 +1291,7 @@ static int cmd_config_remove_section(int argc, const char **argv, const char *pr
static int show_editor(struct config_location_options *opts)
{
char *config_file;
+ int ret;
if (!opts->source.file && !startup_info->have_repository)
die(_("not in a git directory"));
@@ -1313,10 +1314,10 @@ static int show_editor(struct config_location_options *opts)
else if (errno != EEXIST)
die_errno(_("cannot create configuration file %s"), config_file);
}
- launch_editor(config_file, NULL, NULL);
+ ret = launch_editor(config_file, NULL, NULL);
free(config_file);
- return 0;
+ return ret;
}
static int cmd_config_edit(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix,
diff --git a/t/t1300-config.sh b/t/t1300-config.sh
index e3f8064889..9a8f852a86 100755
--- a/t/t1300-config.sh
+++ b/t/t1300-config.sh
@@ -1823,6 +1823,24 @@ test_expect_success 'command line overrides environment config' '
test_cmp expect actual
'
+test_expect_success 'git config --edit successful exit' '
+ test_when_finished "rm -rf repo" &&
+ git init repo &&
+ GIT_EDITOR=true &&
+ export GIT_EDITOR &&
+ git -C repo config -e &&
+ unset GIT_EDITOR
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'git config --edit failure exit' '
+ test_when_finished "rm -rf repo" &&
+ git init repo &&
+ GIT_EDITOR=false &&
+ export GIT_EDITOR &&
+ test_must_fail git -C repo config -e &&
+ unset GIT_EDITOR
+'
+
test_expect_success 'git config --edit works' '
git config -f tmp test.value no &&
echo test.value=yes >expect &&
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-17 21:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-17 21:19 [RFC PATCH 0/1] config: surface editor failure in exit code Kenneth Lorber
2026-08-17 21:19 ` Kenneth Lorber [this message]
2026-08-18 8:42 ` [RFC PATCH 1/1] " Karthik Nayak
2026-08-19 11:17 ` Kenneth Lorber
2026-08-19 20:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-08-17 22:39 ` [RFC PATCH 0/1] " Junio C Hamano
2026-08-18 8:26 ` Karthik Nayak
2026-08-18 14:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-08-18 22:12 ` brian m. carlson
2026-08-19 15:09 ` [PATCH v2 " Kenneth Lorber
2026-08-19 15:09 ` [PATCH v2 1/1] " Kenneth Lorber
2026-08-19 15:09 ` [PATCH v2 0/1] " Kenneth Lorber
2026-08-19 15:09 ` [PATCH v2 1/1] " Kenneth Lorber
2026-08-19 17:58 ` [PATCH v2 0/1] " Junio C Hamano
2026-08-19 18:58 ` Kenneth Lorber
2026-08-19 19:24 ` Junio C Hamano
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