From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:40:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 2/2] Provide a build time default-editor setting
Message-ID: <7viqdy6ii1.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4AE98175.504@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:

> David Roundy schrieb:
>> Any chance this will be exported as plumbing? I know it's pretty
>> high-level, but it'd be handy to have be able to write `git editor
>> $FILENAME` and just have it do the right thing.  This would also mean
>> that the perl scripts below could be simplified.
>
> Something like below? Possible usage in shell scripts:
>
> 	editor=$(git var GIT_EDITOR)
> 	"$editor" "$filename"

I think we support GIT_EDITOR that is command path plus its initial
command line arguments, so you do not want dq around $editor, right?