Re: git refuses to work with gvim

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)

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Matthieu Moy
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