From: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Neal Kreitzinger <neal@rsss.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: interactive rebase editor pathname variable
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 14:49:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimb8fCQoX31GkPqsjtnKgi6TLlUPToodZcZocHJ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100514075913.GA3690@progeny.tock>
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 09:59, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Neal,
>
> Neal Kreitzinger wrote:
>
>> git-rebase -i passes an absolute pathname to the
>> core.editor, e.g.
>> "home/someuser/someworkingtree/.git/rebase-merge/git-rebase-todo". This
>> causes problems in our shop because our proprietary editor cannot handle
>> pathnames beginning with a period (it translates the period to a slash) and
>> therefore our entry for core.editor is 'someeditor "$PWD/$1"'.
>
> For your example, git uses the shell to run the following command.
>
> someeditor "$PWD/$1" "$@"
>
> I would suggest something like the following instead.
>
> [core]
> editor = "sh -c '\
> case \"$1\" in \
> /*|[A-Za-z]:*) file=\"$1\";; \
> *) file=\"$(pwd)/$1\";; \
> esac; \
> someruntime someditor \"$file\"' -"
>
Barely tested:
someditor "$PWD/${1/#$PWD\//}"
Bert
> Hope that helps,
> Jonathan
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-13 18:32 interactive rebase editor pathname variable Neal Kreitzinger
2010-05-14 7:59 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-05-14 12:49 ` Bert Wesarg [this message]
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