Re: [PATCH/RFC 2/2] Provide a build time default-editor setting

On Donnerstag, 29. Oktober 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Johannes Sixt [off-list ref] writes:

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Something like below? Possible usage in shell scripts:

	editor=$(git var GIT_EDITOR)
	"$editor" "$filename"

I think we support GIT_EDITOR that is command path plus its initial
command line arguments, so you do not want dq around $editor, right?

Yeah, whatever, I didn't take the time to think it through. But this may be an 
opportunity to give some life back to the zombie that git-var currently is, 
that is, to make it the plumbing that does value discovery for variables like 
GIT_AUTHOR_INDENT, GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT, GIT_EDITOR, and perhaps also 
GIT_PAGER.

-- Hannes