On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 09:21:08AM +0100, Bastian Buchholz wrote: > Just wanted to report that I am running into issues with the git 2.26 > `rebase.backend` change. > I am a maintainer on https://github.com/FredrikNoren/ungit which is a > UI for git using a http server / browser architecture. > We are using `git rebase` in non interactive mode (e.g. not specifying > `-i` or `--interactive`) on the server and with git 2.26 this fails > because it seems that it now runs in interactive mode by default. It > tries to an editor on `git rebase --continue`. > Specifying `-c rebase.backend=apply` fixes our issue see > https://github.com/FredrikNoren/ungit/issues/1301 I don't think --interactive is relevant here; the features triggered by that option (i.e., the ability to tweak the instruction list) are different from the notion that rebase would never interact with the user at all. There's more discussion of this change in the thread at: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200310174017.GA549010@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ The simplest fix is likely to set GIT_EDITOR=: in your environment when you don't want the user to ever be presented with an editor. -Peff