Add GIT_EDITOR environment and core.editor configuration variables

diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
index 219a81db0c3bc50eb832c37f83054373d6235973..eaea82d0a690154223d0553603a08cf1fa27c8ce 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
@@ -50,7 +50,8 @@ Filters
 ~~~~~~~
 
 The filters are applied in the order as listed below.  The <command>
-argument is always evaluated in shell using the 'eval' command.
+argument is always evaluated in shell using the 'eval' command (with the
+notable exception of the commit filter, for technical reasons).
 Prior to that, the $GIT_COMMIT environment variable will be set to contain
 the id of the commit being rewritten.  Also, GIT_AUTHOR_NAME,
 GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL, GIT_AUTHOR_DATE, GIT_COMMITTER_NAME, GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL,