How can I fix git commit error “Waiting for your editor to close the file…” with VS Code?

Question

I\'m trying just git commit and Git is giving this message:

hint: Waiting for your editor to close the file... /c/Users/AGT/AppData/Loc

Answer 1

git config --global core.editor /usr/bin/vim solved it for me.

Answer 2

If your in vs code go to your source control tab on the left

then type in your comment, press ctrl & enter

if you do git status it should say nothing to commit, working tree clean..that means it worked

Answer 3

Any file may be opened in any editor. So run "ps -ax|grep vim" to check which file is opened in which editor. And then run kill id-of-editor . For e.g. "kill 12345" Thats all

Answer 4

It looks like it has to do with the path of VS Code in your case and possibly the command to set the editor git config --global core.editor "code --wait" not being correct.

In my case, I couldn't complete a merging command.

What really worked for me after ensuring that VS Code is correctly setup :

code --version

worked fine. Executing where code showed me that the installation of code was in a different location than the local app data, which was where git was looking in. I could also tell code could not really be found because the editor was not launching when I was merging.

Finally executing

git config --global core.editor 'code --wait'

did the trick for me. Not that it's in single quotes as suggested further up in one of the comments.