Re: Left-over COMMIT_EDITMSG file in gitdir

Linus Torvalds writes: > In that rewrite, removing some temporary files seems to have been left > out. At least one: .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG. > > In the original commit.sh shell script, we can find this: > > rm -f "$GIT_DIR/COMMIT_MSG" "$GIT_DIR/COMMIT_EDITMSG"

Left-over COMMIT_EDITMSG file in gitdir

This may be intentional, but if so, it's not obvious.. Back long long ago, the original "git commit" shell script got rewritten in C. In that rewrite, removing some temporary files seems to have been left out. At least one: .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG. In the original commit.sh shell script, we can