Re: auto commit merge using the default merge message

Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 23.04.2009 10:32:

Michael J Gruber [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

I think he wants the auto generated message which may be different
for each merge. Maybe something like

GIT_EDITOR=/bin/true git commit

will do the trick.

Use "GIT_EDITOR=:" instead.  It also is *true* just like /bin/true,
but git knows a simple magic about this and avoids an extra
fork+exec.

Good to know!

A similar trick exists for GIT_PAGER=cat (not "/bin/cat"), by the
way.

So, GIT_PAGER=cat differs from GIT_PAGER=/bin/cat even when `which
cat`==/bin/cat?

Michael