GFW fails with ST3 on Windows 11

I have been using Sublime Text 3 as the editor on Git for Windows for years, on Windows 10. I recently purchased a Windows 11 machine. On that machine, when I give GFW the following command, I get the response shown:

$ git commit -a […] hint: Waiting for your editor to close the file… C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 3\sublime_text.exe: C:Program: command not found error: There was a problem with the editor ‘C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 3\sublime_text.exe’. Please supply the message using either -m or -F option.

Does anyone know of a fix? To repeat, it’s only a problem on Windows 11.

On 2023-10-27 at 07:31:32, John wrote:

I think the "command not found" indicates that you may have specified your editor incorrectly. In Git Bash, can you try the following commands, one at a time, and then commit between each one to see if one of them works?

  git config --global core.editor '"C:/Program Files/Sublime Text 3/sublime_text.exe"'
  git config --global core.editor '"C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 3\sublime_text.exe"'

I believe that both should work here.

My guess is that this is the situation hinted at in the FAQ[0], where, because the editor is passed to the shell (bash), you need to use double quotes to prevent it from thinking that you have a program named "C:\Program" with arguments "Files\Sublime", "Text", and "3\sublime_text.exe".

Hopefully this works; if not, please let us know, and hopefully someone on the list who uses Windows can provide some help. I'm afraid that, as a Linux user, I'm not able to provide more than a guess here.

[0] https://git-scm.com/docs/gitfaq#configure-editor

On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 02:31:32PM +0700, John wrote:

What if you change the contents of the GIT_EDITOR (or EDITOR - whichever is set) environment variable to contain forward slashes? That is, for the pathname to read "C:/Program Files/..."?

If that does not work, what if you replace "C:/" with "/c/" - that is, for the pathname to read "/c/Program files/..."?

Please note that depending on where this variable is set (in the "System" block of setting or "User") you might need to reboot or relogin, correspondingly in order for the setting to be applied to your environment.

Also please check the core.editor configuration setting - it might be set, and then you should try to modify it instead [3].

While we're at it, such issues are better discussed on the dedicated mailing list for GfW [1]. Also check the project's issue tracker [2].

 1. https://groups.google.com/g/git-for-windows/
 2. https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/
 3. https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/782

On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 03:29:58PM +0300, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote:

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This means Git's configuration setting.

You might run

  git config --get-all --show-scope core.editor

in your shell to get the values of this setting printed, if set, prefixed with the scope these values are defined in (see `git help config` or [1] for more info).

 1. https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-config

On 2023-10-27 at 09:59:47, John wrote:

It looks like this was sent to just me and not the list, so forwarding it back for additional assistance.