From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2021 16:38:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] protect git from a rogue editor
Message-ID: <xmqqwnmswxs7.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20211004072600.74241-1-carenas@gmail.com>

Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón  <carenas@gmail.com> writes:

> The following series, expands git's terminal support to allow for
> saving/restoring its settings around an EDITOR call.
>
> The reason why that might be useful has been documented[1] by Windows
> users that had found themselves not able to read clearly the messages
> printed by git after a commit (or a rebase) when the default EDITOR
> failed to reset the terminal settings completely.

Sounds sensible.  I do not think it is limited to Windows---I think
I've caused vi crash to get me into an non-echoing terminal myself
non some variant of UNIX before Linux era ;-)