interactive rebase editor pathname variable

["Neal Kreitzinger" <neal@rsss.com>]

Hi,

It appears that git-commit and git-tag pass a partial pathname to the 
core.editor, e.g. ".git/COMMIT_EDITMSG" that is relative to the working tree 
directory.  However, 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"'.  This breaks 
on git rebase -i when the $1 contains the full pathname.  Can this be added 
to the bugfix list for git to make the $1 value passed to core.editor by all 
git commands to always be relative pathnames (or absolute pathnames).  FWIW, 
I prefer absolute pathnames because a config entry of 'someeditor $1' is 
more straightforward than 'someeditor "$PWD/$1"'.  (Note:  the reason I must 
pass $1 is because the editor runs on top of a runtime and is actually 
called as 'someruntime someeditor "$1"')

v/r,
Neal