From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:55:11 GMT
Subject: Re: auto commit merge using the default merge message
Message-ID: <20090424175511.GA11360@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <81bfc67a0904241050t26a0ed62vbf17e471ddc10672@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 01:50:57PM -0400, Caleb Cushing wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > export GIT_EDITOR
> >
> maybe I'm being silly, but won't that then affect my interactive shells?

No, because you're putting it in your shell script, not in your .profile
(right?). The "export" command just tells the shell "pass this variable
in the environment to any child processes you spawn". Without it, the
variable is local to that shell.

-Peff