I'm trying to learn git. After doing the initial add . I come to a message. Do I add my comment as a comment with # before my line, or what? And how to I get out of there?
I've been trying to find a good tutorial but I can't find any that explains this issue, so I get stuck. Are there any good tutorials about git that really explains it without leaving out important parts like this?
I'm guessing you typed "git ci" ? If so that will open up whatever editor is defined in the EDITOR environment variable. Write your message (without preceeding #'s) and then save.
Or, do it this way:
git ci -m "this is my commit message"
-philip
Pål Bergström wrote:
I'm trying to learn git. After doing the initial add . I come to a message. Do I add my comment as a comment with # before my line, or what? And how to I get out of there?
I've been trying to find a good tutorial but I can't find any that explains this issue, so I get stuck. Are there any good tutorials about git that really explains it without leaving out important parts like this?
The sequence is.
# git add <file or directory tree> # git commit -m <comment here> | Insert as first line in message file that editor opens.
If this is a local repository then you are done. If cloned from a remote master then you need to follow the local commit with a
# git push
To see the current status of the local vs. the remote repository
# git status
To update the local from the remote
# git pull
peepcode.com has an excellent pdf book on git for $9.00, a great value. They also have a screencast on git ($9.00) as does railscasts.com (free)
I've got the same problem as this guy, and these comments aren't helping. When get prompts me to enter my commit message, it opens an editor, and I for the life of me can't figure out how to close it. How do I let it know that I'm done with my message? Sorry for the n00b questions.
Close the editor.
If you're using "nano", it's Ctrl+X.
What's your output from
git config --get core.editor
?
Yeah, just close your editor and it will finish your message.
BTW, there is a great git tutorial on peepcode.com, the title is "Git
internals", it's quite big but I really understood git after reading
it, unfortunately it's not free... 
If you are using vi/Vim ... try pressing Esc and then :qw and hit Enter. That should quit you out of there.
Which means it's time for me to read the documentation myself. 
git-commit(1) says: "The editor used to edit the commit log message will be chosen from the GIT_EDITOR environment variable, the core.editor configuration variable, the VISUAL environment variable, or the EDITOR environment variable (in that order)."
So if git config --get core.editor says nothing, then you need to find the value of one of those environment variables to find out which editor you're using.
If none of them are set, I have no idea what editor you're getting... but you still need to save your changes to the file and exit the editor.
Two probable default editors are nano and vi: Nano exits with ctrl-x (and Y to question about saving changes). vi saves and exits with :wq
If you don't need long commit messages you can avoid the editor entirely with: git commit -m "your message here"
-Michael
Note: you may need to press ESC first if you are in edit mode.
Then it's vi I have.
You can change that with:
git config --global core.editor [your_favorite_editor]
or by setting GIT_EDITOR environment variable
unless you like vi, that is.
I learned to do:
git commit -a -v -m "message"
I understand -a and -m but not 100% on what -v does. I think it has to do what it saves. With -v it only saves changed content. But not sure.
-v adds a bunch of text to the commit message, specifically a diff of all the exact changes made by this commit.
Regards, Michael