From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:07:12 GMT
Subject: Re: auto commit merge using the default merge message
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:
> 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