On 2007-08-14 00:55:11 -0400, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> Karl Hasselstrm <kha@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > git-gui is very good at composing commits. But for writing the
> > actual commit message -- especially if it's long and needs
> > paragraph reflowing, indentation, and so on -- I vastly prefer
> > emacs over git-gui's text field.
>
> Yea, I've been thinking about adding fancy features like those. But
> been lazy.
Yeah, every time I read the git list, I think to myself, "Wow, Shawn
sure is lazy!" :-)
You do a lot of seriously useful work on git.
> Spawning the user's preferred editor would be a nice way to get some
> of that.
Mmm. I wouldn't call it a _nice_ way: popping up an external program
just to get the right text editing behavior. More like the _only_ way,
if the user is picky enough.
> An annoying work-around would be to run your editor to create/edit
> .git/GITGUI_MSG (or .git/MERGE_MSG) then hit Rescan in git-gui. It
> loads that file into its editor buffer if the editor buffer is empty
> or has not been modified from within git-gui since the last time the
> file was read.
I just tend to git-commit --amend to accomplish that.
--
Karl Hasselström, kha@xxxxxxxxxxx
www.treskal.com/kalle
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