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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Oh, it was because when I was following the guide, it was using the vim command at the start:<div><pre style="font-family: monospace, Courier; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 1em; line-height: 1.3em; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">vim Example/Example.body.php</pre><div><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Tutorial#Make_and_commit_your_change" target="_blank">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Tutorial#Make_and_commit_your_change</a></div><div><br></div><div>I thought it was part of the learning phase of that guide but thanks for saving me some time. </div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">But when I did tried to paste that command: vim Example/Example.body.php in the git bash but then I got an error: </span></div><div><br></div><div><div>E303: Unable to open swap file for "Example\Example.body.php", recovery impossib</div><div>"Example\Example.body.php" [New DIRECTORY]</div><div>Press ENTER or type command to continue</div><div><br></div><div>So it sounds like I can use <span style="font-size: 12pt;">rubymine</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> or any other text editor to accomplish this task without too much pain involved?</span></div><div><br></div><div>-Muz</div><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: zfilipin@wikimedia.org<br>Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 19:02:54 +0200<br>To: qa@lists.wikimedia.org<br>Subject: Re: [QA] Help setting up Git<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div class="ecxgmail_extra"><div class="ecxgmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Muzammil Rajwadkar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:muzzymon@hotmail.com" target="_blank">muzzymon@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div>Good news, I got it working! <br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Great!</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div>I am now at the part where I am trying to commit my first local change and learning Vim for the first time (oh joy).</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I have recently started using vim and I like it so far, but I would not recommend it to you at this time. Learning a lot of things at once is hard. Is there a reason that you are using vim? Why not rubymine or any other "normal" editor/ide? </div>
</div><br>Željko</div></div>
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