When writing a lengthy commit message you might want to save the buffer occasionally out of habit, but if you do you'll find that a commit takes place and your half-written commit message got included.

To avoid this, I think it would be a good idea if the BufWritePost autocmd in the :GitCommit implementation were changed to BufDelete or similar.

It would also match the behaviour of the command line when you have EDITOR=vim (or any other editor) in your environment and do a "git commit": the actual commit is only processed when you exit the editor, not when you save the message.

looks like the pwd is left as the .git directory,

adding in "cd .." before "execute printf("autocmd BufWritePost" within GitCommit() sorted this for now,

In my ~/.gitconfig I have

[color]
ui = auto

which means that output from git is coloured. The git-vim commands don't show this colouring.

pull.

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Hi

Tho GetGitDir() seems to return a path ending in /

-        let lines = readfile(git_dir . 'HEAD')
+        let lines = readfile(git_dir . '/HEAD')

-    execute printf('%s %sCOMMIT_EDITMSG', g:git_command_edit, git_dir)
+    execute printf('%s %s/COMMIT_EDITMSG', g:git_command_edit, git_dir)

(stupid formatting - you get the point ;)

patches are required for this to work.

Would you mind looking into this?

Thanks for the good work :)

Suggested fix here:

wincent/git-vim@46fc53cef65ae948a13ec5f0d13a2ff77501c4f2

With current HEAD of git-vim (73a1817), hitting "enter" to add files while viewing :GitStatus output doesn't work. Just yields this error for me:

Error detected while processing function GitAdd..GitDoCommand..<SNR>16_SystemGit:
line    1:
E484: Can't open file /var/folders/mh/mhvu4vHPGiGR1PpCmIscX++++TI/-Tmp-/v868250/10

Not sure what other info might help troubleshoot this one. I'm running MacVim 7.2 stable 1.2 (33.3) on Mac OS X 10.5.6 and Git 1.6.3.

Loving the plugin, but when I try to create a commit message from within vim I get the new buffer, I fill out my commit message, and it finishes with:
"COMMIT_EDITMSG" 1L, 76C [w]

But the commit doesn't take place. When I run git status I have the same changes/etc.

Any hints or any ideas to track? From the code it looks like the post write hook should work fine.

If you're editing a file inside a submodule :Git* is acted upon the main repository rather than the submodule. So :GitBlame says things are not commited, and :GitStatus reports the status of the main repo.

Any chance of automatically setting the filetype to "gitcommit" when editing a commit message in a Vim buffer (triggered by :GitCommit)? (That is, ":setlocal filetype=gitcommit").

At least with my version of Vim -- that is, MacVim 7.2 stable 1.2 (33.3) -- Tim Pope's Git files (http://www.tpope.net/vim-git-announcement) came included, which means that a commit message has syntax colouring, highlighting of errors, autowrapping to 72 columns etc. I've also got Tim Pope's files in /usr/share/vim/vim72/, so I guess they come standard with the version of Vim that ships with Mac OS X leopard anyway.

As far as I can telling, setting the filetype to "gitcommit" on systems which don't have Tim's runtime files has no ill effects.

All of the git commands seem to work well for me if I open up the file through the terminal,
but if I open up the file through MacVim and try to run the same commands I run into issues.
It would tell me that the file is "Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git",
even though the directory in which the file is in has a .git file.

Anyone else having this issue?

Suggested fix here:

wincent/git-vim@fc3ad49663e92ecabf1246a8ce33031fbcab49fa