GIT_EDITOR not working with macvim

Question

This is what I have in my ~/.bashrc

export GIT_EDITOR=\'/Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim -g \'

When I issue

git comm         


        

Answer 1

I had the same problem. I fixed it by setting mvim as the default editor for git by running the following from the command line:

git config --global core.editor "mvim -f"