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When I go to commit changes to a branch using,
git commit -a
vim is opened and I go to insert my commit message. I get this warning in the terminal:
W10: Warning: Changing a readonly file
In order to continue with the commit, I have to force write using :x! in vim, but otherwise, no problems are encountered.
At the least, this is seems to be just an annoyance. Does anyone know what’s going on and/or how to fix this?
I am using Cygwin on Windows 7.
If the file
.git/COMMIT_EDITMSGexists and is read-only, the simplest thing to do is to delete it – git will recreate it as necessary.