Editor automatically closes when running interactive rebase

Question

I'm trying to squash 40+ commits together in a branch I'm working on using interactive rebase. My chosen editor in git is vscode. When I run the command:

git rebase -i <commit>

I briefly see the file to edit appear in vscode, but then it automatically closes. It renames the file from "git-rebase-todo" to "git-rebase-todo (deleted from disk)" and then closes the tab.

Why is this happening? What are my options?

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited Sep 22 '21 at 06:13

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The vscode forks (spawns) a new process. The original one exits and confuses git, as for git exiting editor means that job is done. rebase tmp file git-rebase-todo is deleted by git,what is indicated by vscode.

To fix that, update git config to use start vscode in the wait mode:

git config --global core.editor "code --wait"

edited Sep 22 '21 at 06:13

torek

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answered Sep 21 '21 at 21:52

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Are you sure you don't have to also pass a flag to `code` to make sure it spawns a new instance, instead of using the already-running one? – JoelFan Sep 21 '21 at 21:53
the `-w` implicitly creates a new window – kofemann Sep 21 '21 at 21:57
ok but you did not include any `-w`. Are you saying `-w` is the same as `--wait` ? – JoelFan Sep 21 '21 at 21:58
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`-w` === `--wait` – kofemann Sep 21 '21 at 21:59

Editor automatically closes when running interactive rebase

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