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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: lists@haller-berlin.de (Stefan Haller)
Cc: anatoly.borodin@gmail.com (Anatoly Borodin), git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Limitiations of git rebase --preserve-merges --interactive
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 08:37:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqvaxm1vc3.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1mu13z0.1hye7bq1uqj26sM%lists@haller-berlin.de> (Stefan Haller's message of "Fri, 23 Sep 2016 12:40:29 +0200")

lists@haller-berlin.de (Stefan Haller) writes:

> Thanks, this is interesting; I'm having trouble understanding the tests
> though. Some of them use rebase -p -i, but I don't understand why they
> use -i, or why that even works in a test (i.e. why it doesn't open an
> editor).

Upon starting up, tests dot-source t/test-lib.sh file and it
unsets most of GIT_* environment variables to obtain a stable
testing environment that is not affected by things that testers
may have in their environment.

There is EDITOR=: in t/test-lib.sh, which was added in 2006 before
GIT_EDITOR was invented.  That is the one in effect for git
subcommands that usually interacts with editors during the test,
unless specific tests further override it with test_set_editor
helper.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-23 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-20  8:46 Limitiations of git rebase --preserve-merges --interactive Stefan Haller
2016-09-22 19:33 ` Anatoly Borodin
2016-09-22 19:48   ` Kevin Daudt
2016-09-22 20:54     ` Stefan Beller
2016-09-23 10:40       ` Stefan Haller
2016-09-23 21:13         ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-09-23 22:26           ` Stefan Beller
2016-09-22 21:04     ` Anatoly Borodin
2016-09-22 21:01 ` Anatoly Borodin
2016-09-22 21:08   ` Stefan Beller
2016-09-23 21:04     ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-09-23 10:40   ` Stefan Haller
2016-09-23 15:37     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-09-23 15:50       ` Stefan Haller
2016-09-23 19:24         ` Johannes Sixt

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