8th April 2010 I have had an annoying problem with git and vi. I like to use vim to edit my commit messages, but I’ve been hit with this annoying message every time I write the message and quit vim. error: There was a problem with the editor 'vi' After a little bit of digging I found that this message is shown by git when the editor exits with a non-zero exit code. You can use $? to see the exit c