Re: Cannot set the commit-message editor

> I run /c/path/to/npp.sh just fine,.... Its only 'git commit' that is
> teleporting me to a different world. So there is NO way I can refer to
> folders outside of my repository in a shell script when it is used in
> a config param ?
>
> I will try setting the core.editor to the value you suggested.
>
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Philip Oakley <philipoakley-7KbaBNvhQFM@public.gmane.org> 
> wrote:
>> From: "Fahad Ashfaque" <fahadash-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
>>>
>>> I have downloaded the latest git from git-scm on my windows machine.
>>>
>>> I am using git on windows, I am having trouble trying to get 
>>> notepad++
>>> as my commit message editor.
>>>
>>> I have created a shell script called npp.sh which has the following
>>> content
>>>
>>> /c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Notepad++/notepad++.exe -multiInst
>>> -nosession -noPlugin $1
>>>
>>>
>>> I figured this is how paths are accepted in git-bash
>>>
>>> Now I configured core.editor this way
>>>
>>> git config --global core.editor /c/path/to/npp.sh
>>>
>>
>> I simply have (from 'git config -l'):
>> core.editor='C:/Program 
>> Files/Notepad++/notepad++.exe' -multiInst -notabbar
>> -nosession -noplugin
>>
>>>
>>> when I try to commit, using the following command
>>>
>>> git commit
>>>
>>> I get the following error
>>> $ git commit
>>> error: cannot spawn c:/path/to/npp.sh: No such file or directory
>>> error: unable to start editor 'c:/dev/tools/cmd/npp.sh'
>>> Please supply the message using either -m or -F option.
>>>
>>> when I run the following command
>>>
>>> ls c:/
>>>
>>> I get the directory for my repository's root, not C drive's root
>>>
>>> When I run the following command through git-bash
>>>
>>> /c/path/to/npp.sh
>>>
>>> It works
>>>
>>> but when git commit invokes, it does not.
>>>
>>> Here is more of what I found
>>>
>>> when 'git commit' launches npp.sh, it changes /c/path/to/npp.sh to
>>> c:/path/to/npp.sh
>>>
>>> c:/ is not the root of my C drive according to git-bash,
>>
>> Correct. The "Linux" bash is rooted, _usually_, at the base of your 
>> personal
>> 'c:/documents and settings' (or whatever on your Windows version), 
>> with the
>> MS drives under /c/ and /d/ etc. i.e. a load of virtualisation.
>>
>> use 'pwd -W' to get the true (Windows) path of your current/present 
>> working
>> directory. (I had to ask just a few days ago ;-)
>>
>>> c:/ is root
>>> of my repository because when I run 'ls c:/' I get files from root 
>>> of
>>> my repository.
>>
>> I wouldn't have expected that to play nice (confusion between windows 
>> and
>> linux path styles).
>>
>>>
>>> so may be if 'git commit' does not change /c/path/to/npp.sh to
>>> c:/path/to/npp.sh, it would work... Or if git-bash does not mount 
>>> c:/
>>> to /c/path/to/myrepository and keep it to /c it would work too.
>>>
>>> Please let me know if you need more info on this
>>
>>
>> I've also copied in the Git user / Git for Human beings list (for 
>> reference)
>> which can be useful for Windows based issues.
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Fahad
>>> --
>>
>>
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