From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Tapsell Subject: Re: Problem Creating Commit Messages Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:08:55 +0000 Message-ID: <43d8ce650903262308s2ebb5740m106bd96ae1ec2284@mail.gmail.com> References: <22735968.post@talk.nabble.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: bggy X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 27 07:12:04 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ln5IQ-00015i-Sp for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:12:03 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752446AbZC0GI7 convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:08:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751896AbZC0GI6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:08:58 -0400 Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.169]:48545 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751285AbZC0GI5 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:08:57 -0400 Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 29so1140111wff.4 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:08:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=dfq0frYGYkOvm/ycApNl75YeWmjj9wHz2vTvdBHed9o=; b=PdanN2qV3YnAgOUjEbGlPxeYt8xj+ueuD2y1RmbgoKZkziget5nzrg3AAiTN0s4jgd aSqJ9i69Z+4C6tS76eiJlHIGULbEdHsxlaGOHsmg4HfbqyjetXbB7+Ov/nR+u/7LcYpb uvbgF394gKayIoTFjp9hd10Crn8q1Y+LN5p1g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=H9k90VOsasIcYw5H/DHTmmp85TyitsiILXMH87ILUkr+0C2VFIWY2F/jo3Z/VHFR3P WxFGpxEgoGjqVRrGec7rF226qFQ0v3IFXgSP5sVAteKeQhEHxf4wVY4zLiMrjtdBqNOG 2LBidszQtNc0dsiXJatcR8fsmFBCwU8+EPfJ4= Received: by 10.142.158.3 with SMTP id g3mr739354wfe.265.1238134135870; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:08:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <22735968.post@talk.nabble.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 2009/3/27 bggy : > > Hello, I'm new to git and I haven't been able to create commit messag= es in > either vim or textmate(changed core.editor to mate). =C2=A0I can crea= te 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 term= inal. You could use a simple text editor like "joe". > Using textmate I saved and closed the textmate file that pops up afte= r $git > commit -a, but git responds that the commit was terminated due to an = empty > message. Sometimes graphical editors return on the command line before they actually quit. This might be what is happening here. If so, you could file a bug against textmate. John