Re: git refuses to work with gvim
- From
Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
- Date
- Oct 12, 2009, 12:43 UTC
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- <vpq8wfgg4u1.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
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- <20091012134312.236d250e@gzip.coli.uni-saarland.de>
sebastian@CoLi.Uni-SB.DE writes:
> # git commit something > fatal: no commit message? aborting commit. > #
The problem is that gvim returns immediately, and lets the window opened (try it in a terminal, "gvim foo.txt" returns immediately). Git expects the commit message to be written and saved when $EDITOR returns.
A quick search for "wait" in the man pages tells me that
GIT_EDITOR='gvim -f' git commit
works.
(BTW, this is in no way specific to Git, 99% applications calling $EDITOR will expect the same behavior)
-- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/