From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:43:50 GMT
Subject: Re: git refuses to work with gvim
Message-ID: <vpq8wfgg4u1.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <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/