post-commit" E212: Can't open file for writing`

Asked Feb 23 '18 at 16:11

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In the .git/hooks folder I need to make a post-commit.sample folder and add a post-commit file to it (and edit a line into it). There was no post-commit file or post-commit.sample folder so I used mkdir and touch to create the file. But when I edited the post-commit file with vim .git/hooks/post-commit.sample/post-commitit gives me the following error

.git/hooks/post-commit.sample/post-commit" E212: Can't open file for writing

ls -l gives me this

ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 shrey shrey 0 Feb 23 20:43 post-commit

If you could please help me. (I am a newbie ofcourse)

edited Feb 23 '18 at 16:17

asked Feb 23 '18 at 16:11

picasso13

I guess you shouldn't have a `.git/hooks/post-commit.sample/post-commit`, you should have a `.git/hooks/post-commit instead`. – sudavid4 Feb 24 '18 at 12:26
How do I do that? What command should I use to edit post-commit and make the error go? – picasso13 Feb 27 '18 at 05:33
[git client side hooks](https://git-scm.com/book/gr/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks) – sudavid4 Feb 27 '18 at 09:06

vim error `.git/hooks/post-commit.sample/post-commit" E212: Can't open file for writing`

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