Re: git-cl under Windows

[David Kastrup]

"Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> writes:

>> $ git cl upload master
>> WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
>> Documentation/notation/input.itely |   56 +++++++++++++++++
>> 1 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>> 'vi' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
>> operable program or batch file.

Apparently not in the PATH available to Python.

>> Description empty; aborting.

That just means that git-cl called what it considered an editor, and the
file for editing did not change, so git-cl aborted.

> I'm not sure what the last line means.  It clearly finds the single 
> commit which has a commit message.  I guess it wants the
> text to go into Rietfeld.  vi actually works fine on the command
> line, so I'm not sure why it can't be found.  I'll continue
> investigating, but if anyone has any ideas ...

You could set the environment variable EDITOR to the full path of vi
(including vi itself, or whatever other editor you may prefer) and see
whether that helps.

-- 
David Kastrup