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

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Quick

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

Story

I got this message while doing a

git commit --amend

My fish reported

~/worp (develop →+) git commit --amend                                                                                                                             
error: There was a problem with the editor 'vi'.
Please supply the message using either -m or -F option.

As I normally use Vim instead Vi, first I tried to set my default editor to Vim in my fish.config:

vim ~/.config/fish/config.fish
...
 13 # Set vim as visual editor default
 14 set -gx VISUAL vim
 15 set -gx EDITOR "$VISUAL"

But that didn’t help. So I found this guy: Fixing “There was a problem with the editor ‘vi'” for Git on Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Which was confirmed here: Using Vim for git commit messages.

Which did fix the problem! Simply execute the following and it’s fixed!

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

 

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