Re: [BUG] "git commit" after "cherry-pick -n" conflict clobbers .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG

Yann Dirson [off-list ref] writes:

(only tested with 1.7.10.x for now)

~/softs/linux$ echo foo > .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG

Why are you mucking with such an internal implementation detail in
the first place?

~/softs/linux$ git cherry-pick -n b55f3d92cd
error: could not apply b55f3d9... Linux 2.6.32.26
hint: after resolving the conflicts, mark the corrected paths
hint: with 'git add <paths>' or 'git rm <paths>'
~/softs/linux$ cat .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG
foo

So far, so good.  But then "git commit" brings me the message from the
cherry-picked commit plus the list of conflicted files, and I can verify that
it is now the contents of .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG.

You verified that "what" is now in .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG?  The commit
log message for you to edit to record the result of the cherry-pick?

If that is the case, what is the problem?

If anything you had in .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG before you started
"'cherry-pick -n', edit further to adjust, and then 'commit'"
sequence were to appear in the editor to edit the commit log,
it would be a bug, I would think.