Any way to prevent Evolve's `metaedit` from opening the message?

Pierre-Yves David pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org
Sat Apr 8 21:24:58 UTC 2023


On 4/7/23 20:32, Anton Shestakov wrote:
> Yeah, I think metaedit was created as an ad-hoc solution to edit 
> commit messages, and then grew some flags for user and date, and even 
> --fold for some reason. Internally it can prevent editor from opening 
> (e.g. when -m or -l is present), but there's no way to do it from CLI. 
> It's not a very well-designed command IMO.

Yeah :-/


This discussion points out that adding a --[no-]edit flag would be useful.



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Pierre-Yves David



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