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From: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
To: Jeenu V <jeenuv@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git notes and core.editor config
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:31:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201101111131.17429.johan@herland.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=0BrBV+DLF_QfDi0mMVdz5tCLFsDMBKvw52nzz@mail.gmail.com>

On Tuesday 11 January 2011, Jeenu V wrote:
> My core.editor value in $HOME/.gitconfig is set to
>
>   [core]
>       editor = vi "+set tw=72 spell"
>
> so that I've text width of 72 with spell check turned on. I haven't
> found problems with any git commands that invoke editor, but notes.
> 'git notes' seems to invoke the vi for me with 3 separate arguments
> instead of just one: "+set, tw=72, and spell". In other words, I
> don't think it honors shell quoting for editor config variable.
>
> Could this be a bug?

Indeed, it could, but I cannot immediately see what causes it. In 
current 'master', builtin/notes.c launches the editor like this:

  if (launch_editor(path, &(msg->buf), NULL)) ...

while builtin/commit.c lauches the editor like this:

  if (launch_editor(git_path(commit_editmsg), NULL, env)) ...

In both cases, the details of interpreting core.editor is left to 
git_default_core_config(), and passed to launch_editor() using the 
editor_program global variable. AFAICS there is no difference between 
how "notes" and "commit" interprets core.editor.

What Git version are you running?


...Johan

-- 
Johan Herland, <johan@herland.net>
www.herland.net

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-11 10:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-11 10:11 git notes and core.editor config Jeenu V
2011-01-11 10:31 ` Johan Herland [this message]
2011-01-11 11:14   ` Jeenu V
2011-01-11 12:26     ` Thomas Rast
2011-01-11 12:36     ` Johan Herland
2011-01-11 13:12       ` Jeenu V

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