Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > For some reason, the construct > > sh -c "$0 \"$@\"" <editor> <file> > > does not pick up quotes in <editor> as expected. So replace $0 with > <editor>. > > This fixes > > git config core.editor "c:/Program Files/What/Ever.exe" > Having sent a few messages about shell quoting, it makes me wonder if this was done very deliberately in the first place, so that you can do things like: git config core.editor "emacs -nw" Blame followed by list archive hunting around that timeperiod would tell. -- 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