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Git invokes an editor, for writing commit messages, etc. (it looks in the VISUAL and EDITOR env vars). That could be a GUI text editor, or something running in
by chriswarbo 5y ago
Git invokes an editor, for writing commit messages, etc. (it looks in the VISUAL and EDITOR env vars). That could be a GUI text editor, or something running in the CLI (personally, I use emacsclient to open a new buffer in an existing Emacs window)
What they're saying is: if you quit that editor without saving the commit message, git will abort.