From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 01:05:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Make git send-email accept $EDITOR with arguments
Message-ID: <7vr6hf35fh.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1198284052-20590-1-git-send-email-hendeby@isy.liu.se>

Gustaf Hendeby <hendeby@isy.liu.se> writes:

> Currently git send-email does not accept $EDITOR with arguments, eg,
> emacs -nw, when starting an editor to produce a cover letter.  This
> patch changes this by letting the shell handle the option parsing.
>
> Signed-off-by:  Gustaf Hendeby <hendeby@isy.liu.se>
> ---
>
> This is based on Junio's suggestion on most readable and compatible
> solution.  I'm not sure if it is identical to the C solution for git
> tag, but it seems to be a reasonable solution.
>
>  git-send-email.perl |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
> index 248d035..e47994a 100755
> --- a/git-send-email.perl
> +++ b/git-send-email.perl
> @@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ EOT
>  	close(C);
>  
>  	my $editor = $ENV{GIT_EDITOR} || $repo->config("core.editor") || $ENV{VISUAL} || $ENV{EDITOR} || "vi";
> -	system($editor, $compose_filename);
> +	system('sh', '-c', '$0 $@', $editor, $compose_filename);
>  
>  	open(C2,">",$compose_filename . ".final")
>  		or die "Failed to open $compose_filename.final : " . $!;
> -- 
> 1.5.4.rc1.16.gc817f

Thanks.  Has this been tested?  IOW, did you compose this
message with this patch?