Re: [PATCH] rebase -i: abort cleanly if the editor fails to launch

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

The non-existent editor also aborts with a non-zero status.

Thanks; that is a good point.  Perhaps we might want to say what editor we
tried to run in the error message.

quoted

An editor that can exit with non-zero status on demand could use this
codepath to abort the rebase,

Removing all lines of the edit script will abort an interactive rebase.

I guess you replied too fast without reading the message to the end ;-)