From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 07:59:14 GMT
Subject: Re: interactive rebase editor pathname variable
Message-ID: <20100514075913.GA3690@progeny.tock>
In-Reply-To: <hshglg$p2q$1@dough.gmane.org>

Hi Neal,

Neal Kreitzinger wrote:

> 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"'.

For your example, git uses the shell to run the following command.

  someeditor "$PWD/$1" "$@"

I would suggest something like the following instead.

  [core]
	editor = "sh -c '\
		case \"$1\" in \
		/*|[A-Za-z]:*) file=\"$1\";; \
		*) file=\"$(pwd)/$1\";; \
		esac; \
		someruntime someditor \"$file\"' -"

Hope that helps,
Jonathan