This is what I have in my ~/.bashrc
export GIT_EDITOR='/Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim -g '
When I issue
git commit
then I get a macvim editor but on the command line I see this message
$ git commit
Aborting commit due to empty commit message.
If I use change GIT_EDITOR to use textmate then things work fine
export GIT_EDITOR='/usr/local/bin/mate -w'
I don't want to use textmate. I want to use macvim. I am using mac and use bash.
You need to supply the -f option to vim to ensure that it doesn't background itself.
--patch mode. If you edit a hunk, it opens properly. When you :wq from Macvim the hunk is edited and --patch moves on to the next hunk, but then immediately quits with suspended (tty input) git add -p. Any ideas?I had the same problem. I fixed it by setting mvim as the default editor for git by running the following from the command line:
git config --global core.editor "mvim -f"
This worked great for me.
git config --global core.editor 'mvim -f --nomru -c "au VimLeave * !open -a iTerm"'
If you are using Terminal.app instead of iTerm.app you can just switch it out.
Source: https://github.com/b4winckler/macvim/wiki/FAQ (though they are using the EDITOR env variable instead of the gitconfig)
warning: core.editor has multiple values error: cannot overwrite multiple values with a single value Use a regexp, --add or --replace-all to change core.editor Could you help me out here please?export GIT_EDITOR='mvim -f --nomru -c "au VimLeave * !open -a iTerm.app"' I had a similar problem. Adding the --noplungin flag to vim solved it for me.
