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Bug#904308: test suite: git invokes $EDITOR/$VISUAL/sensible-editor

From Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject Bug#904308: test suite: git invokes $EDITOR/$VISUAL/sensible-editor
Date 2018-07-23 11:40 +0200
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Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#904308: test suite: git invokes $EDITOR/$VISUAL/sensible-editor"):
> Can you please send me the output of
>    printenv | sort
> ?

Never mind.  The problem is that a couple of the tests set EDITOR but
do not set VISUAL.  So it will run your VISUAL if you have one.

You can work around this bug by not setting VISUAL.  Nowadays I don't
think there is any difference between EDITOR and VISUAL.

Ian.

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Bug#904308: test suite: git invokes $EDITOR/$VISUAL/sensible-editor Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2018-07-23 08:40 +0200
  Bug#904308: test suite: git invokes $EDITOR/$VISUAL/sensible-editor Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2018-07-23 11:40 +0200
  Bug#904308: test suite: git invokes $EDITOR/$VISUAL/sensible-editor Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2018-07-23 11:40 +0200
  Bug#904308: [PATCH] test suite: unset VISUAL, which interferes. Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2018-07-23 11:50 +0200
    Bug#904308: [PATCH] test suite: unset VISUAL, which interferes. Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2018-07-24 05:10 +0200
  Bug#904308: [PATCH] test suite: unset EDITOR, which interferes. Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2018-07-23 11:50 +0200

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