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gedit package

"git commit" fails if gedit is already opened

Bug #1100415 reported by Jo Vik
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This bug affects 9 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gedit (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
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Bug Description

Steps to reproduce:
1) Open gedit
2) Go to git directory
3) Change a tracked file (file.c)
4) Execute "git add file.c"
5) Set gedit as default editor with "git config --global core.editor gedit"
5) Then "git commit"

Expected result:
gedit opens, user adds comment, saves the file and successfully ends commit:
"[master 31c21eb] USER COMMENT GOES HERE
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)"

Current result:
After gedit is opened git immediately outputs following message:
"Aborting commit due to empty commit message."

It's a common issue when using gedit with git; not related to Linux distro or its architecture (x86 or x86-64)

Tags: gedit git
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Nick Volynkin (nick-volynkin) wrote :

This is not a bug but a wrong configuration issue.

Most editors (including gedit, subl, atom ) should be configured with -w (--wait) parameter.

From gedit -h:

  -w, --wait Open files and block process until files are closed

So the configuration command should be like this:

"git config --global core.editor gedit -w"

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Jonathan Gossage (jgossage) wrote :

This bug still exists and is not just a configuration issue. If you set the global git configuration to core.editor="gedit -w -s", you will get the following result:

jonathan@Aristotle:~/EclipseWorkspaces/AGI$ git commit -sS --status
Failed to register: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method "DescribeAll" with signature "" on interface "org.gtk.Actions" doesn't exist

error: There was a problem with the editor 'gedit -w -s'.
Please supply the message using either -m or -F option.

This will happen whether gedit is already open or not.

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Jonathan Gossage (jgossage) wrote :

I am running on 16.04 64 bit.

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Nirav (the-nightling) wrote :

Here's how I set up gedit as my editor and it works as expected:

git config --global --unset-all core.editor
git config --global --add core.editor "gedit -w"

Running on 14.04 64 bit (Mint).

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