<h2>Why am I getting &#8220;fatal: no commit message? aborting commit.&#8221;?</h2> <p>Git needs to wait for TextMate to close the commit log message file. You do so by using &#8220;mate -w&#8221;. There are many ways to set the editor that git uses; according to the git docs: &#8220;The editor used to edit the commit log message will be chosen from the GIT_EDITOR environment variable, the core.editor configuration variable, the <span class="caps">VISUAL</span> environment variable, or the <span class="caps">EDITOR</span> environment variable (in that order).&#8221; You can set it like so:<br /> <code>git config --global core.editor "mate -w"</code></p> 2008-07-22T15:42:42-07:00 64 issues-with-textmate-set-as-git-editor 2009-08-27T21:46:59-07:00 43212