Question

I am using GitHub for windows (http://windows.github.com/). Unfortunately things that require interactive editor (for example – git rebase -i ) are failing in following way.

• open shell provided by GitHub for windows
• use interactive command (git rebase -i or something else)
• Notepad++ opens file produced by git
• I edit, save and close this file
• At this point git should do something based on my edit, unfortunately nothing happens

Answer 1

Close Notepad++ as well.

Solution from http://www.reddit.com/r/git/comments/186uo6/problem_with_interactive_editor_for_git_on_windows/c8c7pi6?context=3