Hello,
Jeffery Brewer (Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 07:57:13PM -0700)
I've slowly been trying to get git to work and just running into loads of
problems.
Using the windows bash I just tried to do a commit this evening and forgot
to add a message (e.g. -m my work for today) and sent the bash into some
sort of odd editing mode that I can't seem to get out of. I finally just
closed the bash and opened a new bash and tried to commit and got all kinds
of error messages with a prompt to type (R) to recover. Typed R to recover
and it took me right back into the strange editing mode that I can't seem
to get out of now. I've backed up all the files in the directory (sensing
an impending catastrophe) but not sure what else to do at this point to get
git running again.
Any help would be appreciated.
The default editor for git is vim, which is a sensible choice as its
available on nearly every platform, but if you've never encountered it
before it can seem a little... unusual.
A little more information on it is at the wiki page here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_(text_editor)
And an introduction to its use can be found here:
http://blog.interlinked.org/tutorials/vim_tutorial.html
(First hit on google; I haven't read it so can't vouch for its quality)
The gist of it is: Press i to enter insert mode, which will let you
type. Press esc to exit that mode. In normal mode (after pressing
esc) type :wq to write your changes to file and quit.
More detail...
If I open a new bash in the directory and run git commit I'm getting this
error message:
E325: ATTENTION
Found a swap file by the name .git\.COMMIT_EDITMSG.swp
dated: Mon Aug 06 19:45:14 2012
file name:
C:/Users/me/Documents/NetBeansProjects/foldername/.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG
modified: YES
user name: me host name: my computer
process ID: 10368
While opening file .git\COMMIT_EDITMSG
dated: Mon Aug 06 19:55:29 2012
NEWER than swap file!
(1) Another program may be editing the same file.
If this is the case, be careful not to end up with two
different instances of the same file when making changes.
Quit, or continue with caution.
(2) An edit session for this file crashed.
If this is the case, use :recover or vim -r .git\COMMIT_EDITMSG
to recover the changes (see :help recovery).
If you did this already, delete the swap file .git\.COMMIT_EDITMSG.swp
to avoid this message.
Swap file .git\.COMMIT_EDITMSG.swp already exists!
-- More -- SPACE/d/j: screen/page/line down, b/u/k: up, q: quit
These warnings are vim warnings and not git ones. They're telling you
that vim ended unexpectedly (when you force-closed the window) while you
were editing a file, so there's a backup you can recover. Clicking
recover opens the backup so that you can edit it again.
Having said all this, you can change the text editor using the following
command-line:
git config --global core.editor notepad
Obviously changing notepad to something more sensible first(!)
Vim is a very good editor and I recommend learning it. I believe the
Cream distribution is popular with Windows people:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cream_(software)
It is an entirely separate thing from git however, and there is an
argument for learning the two tools separately, in which case perhaps
changing the editor to something you're more comfortable with until you
feel happy with git would be a good idea.
Dani.
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