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Re: Aborting git rebase --edit-todo

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 3, 2020, 20:02 UTC
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Victor Toni <victor.toni@gmail.com> writes:
> Even when using Linux I never needed to make my editor exit with a non
> zero code. From a coding perspective this might work, from a usability
> perspective I really don't like it.

I do not use --edit-todo myself so personally I do not care that deeply either way, but I have to agree that it is not the most natural UI to make your editor to exit with non-zero status to signal something to the program that opened the editor.

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