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From: Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org>
To: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
	M Douglas McIlroy <m.douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>,
	Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: default editor
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2021 10:03:15 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+kUOakk_=DRzroNb+0_RcfbkaOYLJxY=AtYMe4YQwuhB+_P_w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cQ=nR7O+uNAufB7ohKN2ZoUP6n1aLbZBz2jeFKMFbaAcA@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, 7 Feb 2021 at 21:59, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:
> By the way, it's also possible to install Cygwin's Git from the Cygwin
> installer rather than attempting to use the Git provided by the
> Git-For-Windows project. The combination of Cygwin `ed` and Cygwin
> `git` works just fine (in my tests) once you configure `ed` as the Git
> editor either by setting GIT_EDITOR or EDITOR environment variables to
> `ed -l` or by configuring git itself:
>
>     git config --global --add core.config 'ed -l'
>
> (You would want to uninstall Git-For-Windows, too, if you have it installed.)

As the Cygwin Git maintainer, I'd strongly recommend this approach:
either use a Cygwin toolchain or a Git for Windows one, rather than
trying to combine the two. While Cygwin and the Git for Windows
environment share common ancestry, they have substantial differences
arising from the fact that Cygwin generally attempts to provide an
environment that's as close to Unix-like as possible, while Git for
Windows is aiming for compatibility with native Windows applications.
Differences in handling paths and return codes are to be expected.

I expect it is possible to use a Cygwin editor with Git for Windows,
but I don't think it's an expected use case, and I'm not aware of
anyone else having produced and published documentation of the
configuration and wrapper scripts I imagine you would need to convert
between the two interfaces.

Adam

  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-08 10:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-07 13:24 default editor M Douglas McIlroy
2021-02-07 17:35 ` brian m. carlson
2021-02-07 18:12   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-07 18:37     ` Jeff King
2021-02-07 19:09       ` brian m. carlson
2021-02-07 21:57       ` Eric Sunshine
2021-02-08 10:03         ` Adam Dinwoodie [this message]
2021-02-11 15:15           ` M Douglas McIlroy
2021-02-12  6:03             ` Eric Sunshine

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