From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:06:06 GMT
Subject: Re: auto commit merge using the default merge message
Message-ID: <20090424140606.GB10761@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <81bfc67a0904231831y31bfb057pa5eaa86d0e153824@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 09:31:10PM -0400, Caleb Cushing wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:32 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> > Use "GIT_EDITOR=:" instead.  It also is *true* just like /bin/true, but
> > git knows a simple magic about this and avoids an extra fork+exec.
> >
> 
> So I could put
> 
> GIT_EDITOR=:
> 
> at the top of my shell script, and then whenever I need to do a
> commit, just git commit and it'll work (assuming the commit has a
> default message).

You need to also

  export GIT_EDITOR

for "git commit" to see it.

-Peff