Using msysgit in cygwin

Using msysgit in cygwin

07 Oct 2011

There are some pitfalls. One for instance is that it starts the editor wrong when running msysgit in the cygwin shell. Naturally I tried specifying different paths and ended up with the following configuration of gitconfig:

c:\\cygwin\\home\\wallymathieu\\.gitconfig
[core]
  editor = "\\"/c/Program Files (x86)/Vim/vim73/gvim.exe\\""

Tags

  • cygwin
  • git
  • msysgit
  • windows

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