[PATCH 0/2] Re: Documentation: replace 'vi' for 'editor' to reflect build-time option

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 31, 2012, 08:40 UTC
Message-ID: <20120331084015.GC4119@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <7v398qq1ei.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I've already rejected this patch once, but that was primarily because the
> patch was not justified with the above "I read everybody else's git uses
> 'vi' on the Interweb, and even though my distro's manual page says it uses
> 'nano', I didn't bother to read it." scenario.

Thanks. Here's a pair of patches meant to combine the advantages of both approaches. ;-)

Thoughts and improvements welcome, of course.

Sincerely,
Jonathan Nieder (2):
  var doc: default editor and pager are configurable at build time
  var doc: advertise current DEFAULT_PAGER and DEFAULT_EDITOR settings

 Documentation/Makefile    |   10 ++++++++++
 Documentation/git-var.txt |   16 ++++++++++++++--
 Makefile                  |    2 ++
 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)