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From: "Björn Gustavsson" <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rebase -i: print the editor name if it fails to launch
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:54:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6672d0160912202354m124700dbw6e2089446d88b24@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v4onlbi3q.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

2009/12/20 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:

> Isn't this too elaborate?  git_editor() has already run and when it
> attempted to launch the editor it assigned to GIT_EDITOR in order to use
> it as an eval string.

I wanted to hide the details about the inner working of git_editor(),
but since it is only called in one place, yes, it is too elaborate.

>
>    git_editor "$TODO" ||
>    die_abort "Failed to run '${GIT_EDITOR:-your editor}'"
>
> would suffice, no?

Yes. Much better. I will rewrite my patch when I'll get home from
work later today.

-- 
Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB

      reply	other threads:[~2009-12-21  7:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-20  8:32 [PATCH] rebase -i: print the editor name if it fails to launch Björn Gustavsson
2009-12-20  8:40 ` Björn Gustavsson
2009-12-20 18:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-12-21  7:54   ` Björn Gustavsson [this message]

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