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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 13:36:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201101111336.19466.johan@herland.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik-=s-F8dmBRLU8o9LcSztb1P0WnkN5HK_n_No4@mail.gmail.com>

On Tuesday 11 January 2011, Jeenu V wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> 
wrote:
> > 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?
> >
> > What Git version are you running?
>
> $ git --version
> git version 1.7.0.4

Ah, there's your problem. In v1.7.1 "git notes" was builtin-ified (it 
used to be a shell script, but was reimplemented in C), so you're still 
running the shell script version of "git notes". I believe upgrading 
will solve your problem (as well as making "git notes" more 
featureful).


...Johan

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-11 12:36 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
2011-01-11 11:14   ` Jeenu V
2011-01-11 12:26     ` Thomas Rast
2011-01-11 12:36     ` Johan Herland [this message]
2011-01-11 13:12       ` Jeenu V

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