Re: Cannot set the commit-message editor

From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley-7kbabnvhqfm@public.gmane.org>
Date: Nov 21, 2014, 17:33 UTC
Message-ID: <F248C92A32904678A4E8E158A3518AA3@PhilipOakley>
In-Reply-To: <CAOmRNZ4uJEoxroyCRUSDwSC3OAMKTSO0s91_uFDaUit3k8eJLg@mail.gmail.com>

From: "Fahad Ashfaque" <fahadash-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>

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>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

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>
> 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).

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>
> 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.

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>
> Thanks
>
> Fahad
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