On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 03:37:50PM +0100, lars.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > + if (print_waiting_for_editor) { > + fprintf(stderr, _("hint: Waiting for your editor input...")); > fflush(stderr); Just FYI, stderr is typically unbuffered on most systems I've used, and although the call to fflush() is harmless, I suspect it's not having any effect. That said, there's plenty of other places in Git which seems to think fflush()ing stderr actually does something. -- Thomas Adam