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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/hooks.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | builtin-commit.c | 2 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
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; |