Re: auto commit merge using the default merge message

From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Apr 23, 2009, 09:07 UTC
Message-ID: <49F02FC0.1010007@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vocunwz1n.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 23.04.2009 10:32:

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> Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:
> 
>> I think he wants the auto generated message which may be different
>> for each merge. Maybe something like
>> 
>> GIT_EDITOR=/bin/true git commit
>> 
>> will do the trick.
> 
> 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.

Good to know!

> A similar trick exists for GIT_PAGER=cat (not "/bin/cat"), by the
> way.
>

So, GIT_PAGER=cat differs from GIT_PAGER=/bin/cat even when `which cat`==/bin/cat?

Michael