Git-flow fails with "fatal: no tag message? / Tagging failed. Please run finish again to retry"

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CuriousYogurt picture CuriousYogurt · Jun 28, 2011 · Viewed 14.9k times · Source

I am using git-flow to manage a project. I am getting the following message when issuing git flow release finish foo:

fatal: no tag message? 
Tagging failed. Please run finish again to retry.

Here is the sequence of steps to reproduce, with a brand new git repository and a single file: 

touch test.txt 
git init 
git add . 
git commit -m "Initial commit" 
git flow init 
[defaults accepted] 
git flow release start 1.0 
echo "Line 1" >> test.txt 
git add . 
git commit -am "Line added" 
git flow release finish '1.0'

At this point, error message above pops up, and Vim is called up to add a tag. When I add the tag and save, I end up on the master branch, with the release/1.0 branch still existing. Any ideas what is going wrong? Git flow version is 0.4.1.

Thank you.

Answer

Coccodrillo picture Coccodrillo · Aug 29, 2011

I had the same problem, it was a core.editor setting that was giving me problems. It turned out I had set up Gedit (no idea how). Try something like git config --global core.editor "vim" or edit the editor line in your .gitconfig.

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