Git commit messages lost by vi

问题

I'm a clumsy typist, and I don't use vi/vim very often, but I do use it for commit messages. However, if you type a wrong command while editing a commit message (:Wq, say, instead of :wq), when you correctly close out the commit message in vim with :wq or :x, you get this:

error: There was a problem with the editor 'vi'.
Please supply the message using either -m or -F option.

Normally, a wrong command like :W is no problem—vim just ignores it and you can keep on working with the file and save it, but in git commit messages as soon as I mistype, I have irrevocably lost the commit message.

What's going on here, and how do I fix it? (Using git 1.9.1 via homebrew, vim 7.3 as packaged with OS X 10.9)

回答1:

You should set vim to not detach from the shell and be in the foreground. You can do this with the following command:

git config --global core.editor vim -f

From the man:

   -f          Foreground.  For the GUI version, Vim will not fork and detach from the shell it
               was  started in.  On the Amiga, Vim is not restarted to open a new window.  This
               option should be used when Vim is executed by a program that will wait  for  the
               edit  session  to  finish (e.g. mail).  On the Amiga the ":sh" and ":!" commands
               will not work.

回答2:

As mentioned in several posts vim is exiting with a exit code other than zero. You can fix it by explicitely setting the git editor to the full vim path:

git config --global core.editor /usr/bin/vim

If I remember correctly I fixed the issue by installing a homebrewed vim. Make sure your path is set correctly then.

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22699614/git-commit-messages-lost-by-vi

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