li...@haller-berlin.de (Stefan Haller) writes:

> Thanks, this is interesting; I'm having trouble understanding the tests
> though. Some of them use rebase -p -i, but I don't understand why they
> use -i, or why that even works in a test (i.e. why it doesn't open an
> editor).

Upon starting up, tests dot-source t/test-lib.sh file and it
unsets most of GIT_* environment variables to obtain a stable
testing environment that is not affected by things that testers
may have in their environment.

There is EDITOR=: in t/test-lib.sh, which was added in 2006 before
GIT_EDITOR was invented.  That is the one in effect for git
subcommands that usually interacts with editors during the test,
unless specific tests further override it with test_set_editor
helper.

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