Problems with entering Git commit message with Vim

Question

OS  Windows  I write    git commit   then         Please enter the commit message    I write some text  like      Form validation added    Press Enter and not commited  Then i press Shift Enter  Ctrl Enter  Alt Enter - still not commited   I think its stupid trouble  but What i must to do

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Typically  git commit brings up an interactive editor  on Linux  and possibly Cygwin  determined by the contents of your  EDITOR environment variable  for you to edit your commit message in   When you save and exit  the commit completes   You should make sure that the changes you are trying to commit have been added to the Git index  this determines what is committed   See http   gitref org basic  for details on this

User · Answer

Have you tried just going  git commit -m  Message here   So in your case   git commit -m  Form validation added    After you ve added your files of course

User · Answer

If it is VIM for Windows  you can do the following    enter your message following the presented guidelines press Esc to make sure you are out of the insert mode then type  wqEnter or ZZ    Note that in VIM there are often several ways to do one thing  Here there is a slight difference though   wqEnter always writes the current file before closing it  while ZZ   xEnter   xiEnter   xitEnter   exiEnter and  exitEnter only write it if the document is modified  All these synonyms just have different numbers of keypresses

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I am assuming you are using msys git  If you are  the editor that is popping up to write your commit message is vim  Vim is not friendly at first  You may prefer to switch to a different editor  If you want to use a different editor  look at this answer  How do I use Notepad    or other  with msysgit   If you want to use vim  type i to type in your message  When happy hit ESC  Then type  wq  and git will then be happy   Or just type git commit -m  your message here  to skip the editor altogether

User · Answer

You can change the comment character to something besides   like this   git config --global core commentchar

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