Aborting commit due to empty commit message

Question

As a newbie git user, when I try to commit my work with

git commit -a -v

and I enter a commit message in my editor, I close the file, and g

Answer 1

To begin with, make sure your git is correctly configured to open some kind of editor prompt (visual studio / sublime / notepad++ / atom etc) in order to proceed further.

• For my case I configured my git to use visual studio in Ubuntu environment.
• I tried committing a change, it failed with given failure.
• Then I looked at my .gitconfig file and found out my editor was missing -w parameter
• I ran git config --global core.editor "code -w" command and rechecked my .gitconfig file, noticed the -w was added there correctly.
• Tried committing the change again and it worked for me.

Hope this helps for some other newbie's like myself.