Re: git-commit feature request: pass editor command line options

> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 09:58:51PM -0700, Matthew Cline <matt@nightrealms.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I'd like to be able to have git-commit pass the commit-message editor command
>> line options which aren't passed to the editor for other usages.  Right now
>> I have "co" aliased to "!sh -c 'GIT_EDITOR=git-commit-editor git commit'",
>> where git-commit-editor is a wrapper around my editor-of-choice which passes
>> the editor the command line options I want, but it'd be simpler and cleaner
>> if I could just set "commit.editor_options=-BAR".  Or even let there be a
>> separate editor for commits, so I could do "core.editor=foo" and
>> "commit.editor=foo -BAR".
>
> Hmm, what is the use-case when using an option --foo is useful when
> creating a commit, but not useful when crating a tag?
>
> Apart from introducing inconsistency...