Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] builtin/history: perform revwalk checks before asking for user input

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:20:49 -0800

Patrick Steinhardt <[email-masked]> writes:

> Adapt one of the tests that is expected to fail because of this check
> to use false(1) as editor. If the editor had been executed by Git, it
> would fail with the error message "Aborting commit as launching the
> editor failed."

I very much appreciate this new description.  OK, we expect the test
to fail due to the check in question, and ensure that the editor is
not invoked, by looking at the error message and making sure it is
not the abort due to the editor returning false.