I just wanted to thank Luis Pereira, it was a pain trying to figure out how to save in VIM, CTRL+S was definitely not it, your suggestion worked. thank you!
On Wednesday, July 9, 2008 at 12:03:11 AM UTC-4, Ruby Freak wrote: > > I am (attempting) to follow the peepcode get tutorial, which has me > rather in the mood for a rant at the moment..... that's better. > Geoffrey had me do a 'git commit -v' which didn't look at all like his > screen as I am on Ubuntu. Vim appeared and asked me to type in a > commit message at the top of the screen. I did that, but couldn't > figure out how to save the damn thing. nothing worked, it just added > to the message. I finally just closed vim and then I had a lock file. > I deleted the lock file and now everything is hosed. I finaly just > deleted the whole .git directory and started over. > > > after I do a 'git commit -v', how do I save the commit message at the > top of the screen in VIM? > > also When I edit the .gitignore file git tells me about it when I run > git status. > what do I do about that? just treat it as any other file? > > Thanks in advance > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
