From: Jonas Flodén <jonas.floden@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:56:07 GMT
Subject: Re: Problem Creating Commit Messages
Message-ID: <gqi0qn$i3k$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <22735968.post@talk.nabble.com>

bggy wrote:
> 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