From: "Jonas Flodén" <jonas.floden@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problem Creating Commit Messages
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:56:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <gqi0qn$i3k$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22735968.post@talk.nabble.com>
bggy wrote:
> Hello, I'm new to git and I haven't been able to create commit messages in
> either vim or textmate(changed core.editor to mate). I can create 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 terminal.
>
> Using textmate I saved and closed the textmate file that pops up after $git
> commit -a, but git responds that the commit was terminated due to an empty
> message.
>
Hi there,
For TextMate to work with Git you need to add the option -w to "mate"
which will specify that it should wait for the file to be closed.
So set EDITOR="mate -w" and it should work with TextMate.
With regards,
Jonas
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-27 7:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-27 4:44 Problem Creating Commit Messages bggy
2009-03-27 5:18 ` Geoffrey Lee
2009-03-27 6:08 ` John Tapsell
2009-03-27 7:56 ` Jonas Flodén [this message]
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