Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 01:49:55PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes: >> >> > If we launch an editor for the user to create a commit >> > message, they may put significant work into doing so. >> > Typically we try to check common mistakes that could cause >> > the commit to fail early, so that we die before the user >> > goes to the trouble. >> > >> > We may still experience some errors afterwards, though; in >> > this case, the user is given no hint that their commit >> > message has been saved. Let's tell them where it is. >> >> Liberal use of atexit() for something like this makes me cringe >> somewhat. > > I don't like it either, but there's not really a better way. The die() > that Ramana triggered in the initial report is deep inside the ident > code. The only other option would be to hook into die_routine, which I > think is even uglier.
Then I would rather not worry about it. A documentation update is probably a good first step, though. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
