[TxMt] Re: using mate with svn

[Martin Kühl]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 13:51, Bryan Lockwood <lockwood.bryan at 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