From 406400ce4f69e79b544dd3539a71b85d99331820 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paolo Bonzini Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 11:01:45 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] git-commit: set GIT_EDITOR=: if editor will not be launched This is a preparatory patch that provides a simple way for the future prepare-commit-msg hook to discover if the editor will be launched. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/hooks.txt | 4 ++++ builtin-commit.c | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/hooks.txt b/Documentation/hooks.txt index f110162b01..e8d80cfcdb 100644 --- a/Documentation/hooks.txt +++ b/Documentation/hooks.txt @@ -61,6 +61,10 @@ The default 'pre-commit' hook, when enabled, catches introduction of lines with trailing whitespaces and aborts the commit when such a line is found. +All the `git-commit` hooks are invoked with the environment +variable `GIT_EDITOR=:` if the command will not bring up an editor +to modify the commit message. + commit-msg ---------- diff --git a/builtin-commit.c b/builtin-commit.c index ec00134f98..90ddbaebf8 100644 --- a/builtin-commit.c +++ b/builtin-commit.c @@ -599,6 +599,8 @@ static int parse_and_validate_options(int argc, const char *argv[], use_editor = 0; if (edit_flag) use_editor = 1; + if (!use_editor) + setenv("GIT_EDITOR", ":", 1); if (get_sha1("HEAD", head_sha1)) initial_commit = 1; -- 2.11.4.GIT