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.

-Peff
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