show_editor() calls launch_editor() to open the user's editor on
the configuration file, but discards the return value and
unconditionally returns 0 (success). When the editor fails to
launch (e.g., $EDITOR is not found, or the editor exits with a
nonzero status), the caller receives no indication that anything
went wrong.
This affects "git config edit" and "git config --edit": the
command silently succeeds even when the editor could not be
started. In contrast, other editor-launching paths in git (such
as "git commit" and "git rebase --edit-todo") properly propagate
editor failures and exit with an error.
Check the return value and propagate the failure by returning -1.
The two callers (cmd_config_edit at line 1315 and the legacy
cmd_config at line 1478) both propagate this return to
handle_builtin, which translates negative returns into an error
exit.
Pointed out by Coverity.
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 4.6
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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