[TxMt] Re: using mate with svn

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 13:51, Bryan Lockwood lockwood.bryan@mac.com wrote:

I've set SVN_EDITOR to mate in hopes of using it to compose my check- in messages. Everything seems to work fine, I get a window in TextMate all set up with spiffy colored lines showing me the files that changed, etc. When I'm done editing, I hit Cmd-S and Cmd-W, but in the shell window of Terminal I see:

Log message unchanged or not specified (a)bort, (c)ontinue, (e)dit:

What am I doing wrong?

The `mate` utility exits before you could save your document. This is as designed, you can set SVN_EDITOR to `mate --wait` and it should work.

HTH, Martin