From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 02:16:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: replace 'vi' for 'editor' to reflect build-time option
Message-ID: <7v398qq1ei.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120330005523.GA28519@burratino>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> Filling in the blank at compile time would be possible, but I'm not
> convinced it's a good idea.  Wouldn't the same user be just as puzzled
> when
>
>   http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git-htmldocs.git;a=blob_plain;f=git-var.html
>
> (or whatever page with a nicer URL arises to replace the old
> www.kernel.org/...  pages) says the fallback is 'vi' and git behaves
> differently?

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.