From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:25:35 GMT
Subject: Re: Latest builtin-commit series
Message-ID: <7vbqbzvcf4.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1190129009.23692.24.camel@hinata.boston.redhat.com>

Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com> writes:

> Better late than never:
>
>       * rebase to Pierres strbuf changes.  Note, there is still some
>         strbuf tweaking required, to let stripspace work on a strbuf.
>         Also, I changed the semantics of stripspace to always add a
>         newline if the last line doesn't have one.  I believe the
>         current odd semantics (always remove the last newline) comes
>         from not being able to easily add a newline, but now that it's a
>         strbuf, that's easy.

I do not find the "remove trailing newline" so odd.  Didn't it
come because you sometimes needed to _not_ add it?

>       * Set the test suite default editor to '/bin/true' instead of ':'.
>         Since we're not exec'ing the editor from shell anymore, ':'
>         won't work.  Maybe we should special case ':' in launch_editor
>         or perhaps make launch_editor use system(3).  Not sure.

We've had a few threads on the list about what to do with:

	GIT_EDITOR='emacs -nw'

I think David's 08874658b450600e72bb7cb0d0747c1ec4b0bfe1
(git-sh-setup.sh: make GIT_EDITOR/core.editor/VISUAL/EDITOR
accept commands) is a sensible to deal with this issue, and
prefer to see the same semantics kept in the C version.