On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 01:50:57PM -0400, Caleb Cushing wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > export GIT_EDITOR > > > maybe I'm being silly, but won't that then affect my interactive shells? No, because you're putting it in your shell script, not in your .profile (right?). The "export" command just tells the shell "pass this variable in the environment to any child processes you spawn". Without it, the variable is local to that shell. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html