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    copied!<p>When I try to do a <code>git commit -a</code>, I get a nice vim instance. I type in my message, do <code>:wq</code>, vim closes down and the terminal has the message, </p> <pre><code>Aborting commit due to empty commit message. </code></pre> <p>Pursuant to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60278/git-commit-text-file" title="Git commit text file?">this question</a> I made sure my core.editor says "gvim" (so does the user.editor, fwiw), but I still get that error message.</p> <p>Does anyone have another idea?</p> <p><strong>Edit 1</strong>: I <em>am</em> able to commit by specifying a file. My messages are too long to reasonably use the -m option.</p> <p><strong>Edit 2:</strong></p> <pre><code>$ git config core.editor vim error: More than one value for the key core.editor: vim error: More than one value for the key core.editor: gvim </code></pre> <p><strong>Edit 3:</strong> Still having the same problem, even with core.editor sorted. Any other ideas?</p> <pre><code>$ git config core.editor gvim -f $ git commit Aborting commit due to empty commit message. </code></pre> <p><strong>Edit 4:</strong> Other error messages. This is everything I'm seeing. I excluded several from my original question because I've gotten them on many machines, none of which had problems using vim/gvim with git (except the current one). In the case shown here, core.editor is set to <code>vim -f</code>.</p> <pre><code>$ git commit (gvim:21655): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times ** (gvim:21655): CRITICAL **: gtk_form_set_static_gravity: assertion `static_gravity_supported' failed ** (gvim:21655): CRITICAL **: gtk_form_set_static_gravity: assertion `static_gravity_supported' failed ** (gvim:21655): CRITICAL **: gtk_form_set_static_gravity: assertion `static_gravity_supported' failed ** (gvim:21655): CRITICAL **: gtk_form_set_static_gravity: assertion `static_gravity_supported' failed ** (gvim:21655): CRITICAL **: gtk_form_set_static_gravity: assertion `static_gravity_supported' failed Aborting commit due to empty commit message. </code></pre> <p>When core.editor is set to <code>gvim -f</code> I get exactly the same error messages except the number is 21641, not 21655. When I Google one of the lines, I get no matches (I find that hard to believe, but there you are).</p>
 

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