Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] config: values of pathname type can be prefixed with :(optional)

From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Date: Oct 7, 2025, 12:24 UTC
Message-ID: <18d9eef5-a1dc-4d9d-957b-ae630f0a2b12@app.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqms63ok7g.fsf@gitster.g>

On Mon, Oct 6, 2025, at 22:21, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> We'd probably need a preliminary clean-up patch to fix all of these
>> in the vicinity.
>
> So, here is the preliminary clea-up step that should come before
> [2/3]
>
> --- >8 ---
> Subject: [PATCH] t7500: fix GIT_EDITOR shell snippet
>
> 2140b140 (commit: error out for missing commit message template,
> 2011-02-25) defined
>
>     GIT_EDITOR="echo hello >\"\$1\""
>
> for thest two tests, with the intention that 'hello' would be

s/thest/these/

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