Cannot commit changes made through tramp/sudo

[Matthew X. Economou]

Dear all,

How do I debug this? Magit invokes sudo to read the git repo, but
somewhere its invocation of `git commit` fails, and I'm not seeing any
meaningful error in the *Messages* buffer:

Tramp: Opening connection for root@hostname net using sudo...
Tramp: Sending command `exec env SHELL=/bin/sh sudo -u root -s -H -p
Password:'
Tramp: Waiting for prompts from remote shell...
Tramp: Sending Password
Tramp: Waiting for prompts from remote shell...done
Tramp: Found remote shell prompt on `hostname'
Tramp: Opening connection for root@hostname using sudo...done
Tramp: Inserting `/sudo:root@hostname:/path/.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG'...
Copying /sudo:root@hostname:/path/.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG to
/tmp/tramp.99342UqK...done
Tramp: Inserting `/sudo:root@hostname:/path/.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG'...done
Tramp: Checking `vc-registered' for
/sudo:root@hostname:/path/.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG...
Type C-c C-c to finish, or C-c C-k to cancel
Tramp: Checking `vc-registered' for
/sudo:root@hostname:/path/.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG...done
Tramp: Inserting `/sudo:root@hostname:/path/.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG'...done
Saving file /sudo:root@hostname:/path/.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG...
Copying /tmp/tramp.99342h0Q to
/sudo:root@hostname:/path/.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG...done
Wrote /sudo:root@hostname:/path/.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG

At this point I've saved the commit message via C-c C-c, but when Emacs
returns to the *magit* buffer, the staged commits are still uncommitted.

How should I proceed?

Best wishes,
Matthew

--
"The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne."

[Tim Visher]

Do you really mean to be running git as root?

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[and...@gmail.com]

I am suffering from this bug as well.

Why run git as root? In my case I use git to track changes in /usr/local/etc (its FreeBSD box), which is a root-owned segment of file system hierarchy.

Other Magit functions like stage/unstage, revert hunk etc work well, except Commit. So I must perform 'git commit' manually in shell at the moment.

[and...@gmail.com]

On Friday, April 22, 2016 at 6:16:35 PM UTC+3, Matthew Economou wrote:

The issue was investigated. See: https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/2672

The solution is to configure with-editor to explicitly use Bash:

(setq with-editor-sleeping-editor "\
bash -c '\
echo \"WITH-EDITOR: $$ OPEN $0\"; \
sleep 604800 & sleep=$!; \
trap \"kill $sleep; exit 0\" USR1; \
trap \"kill $sleep; exit 1\" USR2; \
wait $sleep'")

Regards,
Andrew