Re: Cannot set the commit-message editor
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- Fahad Ashfaque <fahadash@gmail.com>
- Date
- Nov 21, 2014, 19:51 UTC
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- <CAOmRNZ5PGWNM_+c_G_3ZfBnYqXTM-5WRBpK_z7Px6Jkae+CvRw@mail.gmail.com>
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- <F248C92A32904678A4E8E158A3518AA3@PhilipOakley>
still don't get it.
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@iee.org> wrote:
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> From: "Fahad Ashfaque" <fahadash@gmail.com> >> >> 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 >> -- > >