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From:   John Rood <mr.john.rood@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 27 Oct 2016 17:48:47 -0500
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Subject: Re: feature request
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What I'm really seeking is not a make-shift solution for myself, but
an intuitive solution for the novice user-base at large.

On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 5:27 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> John Rood <mr.john.rood@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I suppose I can do git config --global core.editor notepad
>> However, this really only addresses my second concern.
>>
>> My first concern is that using a text editor at all seems like
>> overkill in many scenarios.
>
> Nobody stops you from writing a "type whatever you want; I won't let
> you edit any mistakes as I am not even a text editor; just hit
> RETURN when you are done, as you can only write a single line"
> program and set it as your GIT_EDITOR.
>
> I do not know what would happen when you need "git commit --amend",
> though.