Hi Junio, On Wed, 22 Mar 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 4:01 PM, Johannes Schindelin > > <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> Noticed by Sebastian Schuberth. > > > > Thanks for working on the fix. > > > >> +# set up fake editor to replace `pick` by `reword` > >> +cat > reword-editor <<'EOF' > >> +#!/bin/sh > >> +mv "$1" "$1".bup && > >> +sed 's/^pick/reword/' <"$1".bup >"$1" > >> +EOF > > > > Maybe use > > > > sed -i 's/^pick/reword/' "$1" > > > > here to avoid renaming the input file? Not sure how portable -i for > > sed is, though. Otherwise, maybe remove the file "$1".bup afterwards > > to be clean? > > "-i" is GNUism and it is a good idea to avoid it, but cleaning after > itself may be worth doing to avoid contaminating the working tree. This script is only used as *sequence* editor, i.e. for .git/merge-rebase/git-rebase-todo. As such, I find it valuable to have the original version in the same directory, and the file is cleaned up upon success by the `git rebase -i` command anyway. In that light, I am sure you agree that the current code is fine. Ciao, Dscho