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prepare-dry-run e2e tests require EDITOR env var for git commit

Category: gotcha

Confidence: 0.90

ID: 01a043da-9a02-7de5-8282-71523c02ac5e

Project ID: e16af391-c497-4837-b681-c849a5514499

Cross-project: No

Recalled in other projects: 1

Source session: (none)

Created: 2026-06-10 21:07:09

Updated: 2026-08-27 15:33:14

Cross-Project Recalls

Project	Hits	Last recalled
opencode-lore	1	14h ago

Content

In dumb/non-interactive terminals, Git operations that need to retain or create a commit message can fail with Terminal is dumb, but EDITOR unset (including prepare dry-run e2e commits and git rebase --continue). This is an environment issue, not a code or conflict failure. Set EDITOR or GIT_EDITOR to a usable editor; true or : is sufficient when the existing message should be retained. git rebase --continue -m is invalid.