Re: call external editor from git-gui?

On 2007-08-14 00:55:11 -0400, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

Karl Hasselstrm [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

git-gui is very good at composing commits. But for writing the
actual commit message -- especially if it's long and needs
paragraph reflowing, indentation, and so on -- I vastly prefer
emacs over git-gui's text field.

Yea, I've been thinking about adding fancy features like those. But
been lazy.

Yeah, every time I read the git list, I think to myself, "Wow, Shawn
sure is lazy!" :-)

You do a lot of seriously useful work on git.

Spawning the user's preferred editor would be a nice way to get some
of that.

Mmm. I wouldn't call it a _nice_ way: popping up an external program
just to get the right text editing behavior. More like the _only_ way,
if the user is picky enough.

An annoying work-around would be to run your editor to create/edit
.git/GITGUI_MSG (or .git/MERGE_MSG) then hit Rescan in git-gui. It
loads that file into its editor buffer if the editor buffer is empty
or has not been modified from within git-gui since the last time the
file was read.

I just tend to git-commit --amend to accomplish that.

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Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
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