From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 19:29:32 GMT
Subject: Re: Allow editing of a revert-message
Message-ID: <7v7jaz5fj7.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511230954440.13959@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> ..., although I 
> actually suspect it should be on by default (and we should have a 
> "--no-edit" flag to disable it, probably together with an automatic 
> disable if stdin isn't a terminal).

Thanks, and I agree.  It is very very unlikely that somebody has
git-revert in her script and relies on git-revert to be
non-interactive, so we might not even need --no-edit.

> +[ "$edit" ] && ${EDITOR:-${VISUAL:-vi}} .msg
>  case "$no_commit" in
>  '')
>  	git-commit -n -F .msg

I think we can do

	-e)
		edit="-e" ;;
        ..

	git-commit -n -F .msg $edit

to lose the ${EDITOR-${VISUAL-vi}} part..