From: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 12:49:48 GMT
Subject: Re: interactive rebase editor pathname variable
Message-ID: <AANLkTimb8fCQoX31GkPqsjtnKgi6TLlUPToodZcZocHJ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100514075913.GA3690@progeny.tock>

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 09:59, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Neal,
>
> Neal Kreitzinger wrote:
>
>> git-rebase -i passes an absolute pathname to the
>> core.editor, e.g.
>> "home/someuser/someworkingtree/.git/rebase-merge/git-rebase-todo".  This
>> causes problems in our shop because our proprietary editor cannot handle
>> pathnames beginning with a period (it translates the period to a slash) and
>> therefore our entry for core.editor is 'someeditor "$PWD/$1"'.
>
> For your example, git uses the shell to run the following command.
>
>  someeditor "$PWD/$1" "$@"
>
> I would suggest something like the following instead.
>
>  [core]
>        editor = "sh -c '\
>                case \"$1\" in \
>                /*|[A-Za-z]:*) file=\"$1\";; \
>                *) file=\"$(pwd)/$1\";; \
>                esac; \
>                someruntime someditor \"$file\"' -"
>

Barely tested:

someditor "$PWD/${1/#$PWD\//}"

Bert

> Hope that helps,
> Jonathan
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