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Re: Problem Creating Commit Messages

From
JFJonas Flodén <jonas.floden@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 27, 2009, 07:56 UTC
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<gqi0qn$i3k$1@ger.gmane.org>
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bggy wrote:
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> Hello, I'm new to git and I haven't been able to create commit messages in
> either vim or textmate(changed core.editor to mate).  I can create commit
> messages when I use the -m option, but I like creating multiple-line
> messages and it's easier to do it with a fresh line-break in the terminal.
> 
> Using textmate I saved and closed the textmate file that pops up after $git
> commit -a, but git responds that the commit was terminated due to an empty
> message.
>

Hi there, For TextMate to work with Git you need to add the option -w to "mate" which will specify that it should wait for the file to be closed.

So set EDITOR="mate -w" and it should work with TextMate.

With regards, Jonas

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