From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 07:24:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rebase -i: abort cleanly if the editor fails to launch
Message-ID: <7vmy1ecdlx.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0912192156030.4985@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> The non-existent editor also aborts with a non-zero status.

Thanks; that is a good point.  Perhaps we might want to say what editor we
tried to run in the error message.

>> An editor that can exit with non-zero status on demand could use this
>> codepath to abort the rebase,
>
> Removing all lines of the edit script will abort an interactive rebase.

I guess you replied too fast without reading the message to the end ;-)