Question

I’m using egg (emacs got git) as git interface in emacs.
Whenever I try to achieve a commit –amend, I receive a "GIT-COMMIT-AMEND> Aborting commit due to empty commit message".

This is what i do:

C-u C-x v c

Then the commit buffer appears, with the message of my previous commit.

Then upon C-c C-c I get the message stated above: empty commit message.

I think I’ve had this behaviour with regular commits (as in not amend) before, but can’t remember or find how I solved it.

I tried editing the message (adding a space somewhere). No work.

I tried saving the buffer before committing, that wouldn’t work either (since C-c C-c is not active in another buffer than the commit buffer).

Any clue?

Answer 1

Problem solved, although I do not quite understand.

I had to change some options for egg. It didn’t seem to have the correct string to find git.exe in some cases.

What I did:

M-x customize-group <RET> egg <RET>

then changing Egg git command to git.exe including its full path worked.

This is a bit strange since:

• egg could use git to generate the status buffer
• the path to git is in my path envvar
• the message “Aborting commit…” comes from git, I believe.

After learning how to debug elisp, I found that the markers supposed to show the limits of the commit message were both nil in the function egg-log-msg-commit.

At other places, these markers hold the character indexes for the commit message, but not there.