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authorLibravatar Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>2008-02-05 11:01:45 +0100
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-02-06 02:26:02 -0800
commit406400ce4f69e79b544dd3539a71b85d99331820 (patch)
treeba11111ec74340689bc94ec0689dd628852dfdce /Documentation
parentgit-commit: support variable number of hook arguments (diff)
downloadtgif-406400ce4f69e79b544dd3539a71b85d99331820.tar.xz
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 <gitster@pobox.com>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/hooks.txt4
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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
----------