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Development Tools Git Basics Getting Started With Git Committing Changes

Seth Warner
Seth Warner
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Posted by Seth Warner
Seth Warner
5,348 Points

On video "Committing Changes" I noticed that Tommy did not include a hash tag in front of his comment and..

and I could not tell which keys he was pressing when it came to exiting the commit file, giving him the success message. Did he hit cmd + o then cmd + x or something?

Seth

2 Answers

Christopher Misa
Christopher Misa
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Christopher Misa
Christopher Misa
6,467 Points

The message is the main content of this file. If it is preceded by hash tags, git will ignore it and think you left an empty message. . .

He probably pressed [control + o] to write out the file, [return] to accept the file name, and [control + x] to exit the program.

Jane Eyer
Jane Eyer
2,586 Points
Jane Eyer
Jane Eyer
2,586 Points

If ctrl + x does not work for you then your git is using vim. In that case, Press esc and type ":wq" (w- means for write, q - means for quit) and press enter.

In the future if you want to use nano as a default text editor. then go to the main screen on terminal. type: nano ~/.gitconfig

The above command line will open an empty file and in the empty file type: git config core.editor "nano"

then press ctrl + x and enter to save and get out.

Happy gitting :D