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From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
To: Matthew Cline <matt@nightrealms.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-commit feature request: pass editor command line options
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:23:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091014172337.GE6115@genesis.frugalware.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25885354.post@talk.nabble.com>

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On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 09:58:51PM -0700, Matthew Cline <matt@nightrealms.com> wrote:
> 
> I'd like to be able to have git-commit pass the commit-message editor command
> line options which aren't passed to the editor for other usages.  Right now
> I have "co" aliased to "!sh -c 'GIT_EDITOR=git-commit-editor git commit'",
> where git-commit-editor is a wrapper around my editor-of-choice which passes
> the editor the command line options I want, but it'd be simpler and cleaner
> if I could just set "commit.editor_options=-BAR".  Or even let there be a
> separate editor for commits, so I could do "core.editor=foo" and
> "commit.editor=foo -BAR".

Hmm, what is the use-case when using an option --foo is useful when
creating a commit, but not useful when crating a tag?

Apart from introducing inconsistency...

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-14 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-14  4:58 git-commit feature request: pass editor command line options Matthew Cline
2009-10-14 17:23 ` Miklos Vajna [this message]
2009-10-14 19:11   ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-14 21:12     ` Jeff King
2009-10-14 20:03   ` Matthew Cline
2009-10-14 22:12     ` Miklos Vajna

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