Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.26.0-rc1

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> The first change is that we'll now open an editor when continuing a
> conflicted rebase. You can see it by running this:
> ...
> We won't run the editor the "apply" backend, but do for "merge".  I'm
> not sure how big a deal this is.

Back when "git am" was written, it was not considered a bug that the
"git am --resolved" option did not offer the user a chance to update
the log message to match the adjustment of the code the user made,
but honestly, I'd have to say that it is a bug in "git am" in that
over time it wasn't adjusted to the new world order where we
encourage users to describe what they did when the automation
hiccuped by opening an editor.  These days, even when automation
worked well (e.g. a clean auto-merge with "git merge"), we open an
editor.  The world has changed, and so should the expectations.

If it were that we used to let the users edit and the new behaviour
is to auto-continue, it would be a quite drastic behaviour change
that may annoy the users, but fortunately this is the other way
around, so it may not be too bad.  Having said all that, I do not
mind some workaround, e.g. "git rebase --continue --no-edit".

"GIT_EDITOR=: git rebase --continue" would be a usable workaround
that does not require any code change, hopefully.