(+cc: msysgit) Hi Rainer, Rainer Lauer wrote: > with my Windows 7 Git-Installation I get following challenge: > > 1) Set GIT_EDITOR to editor of your choice > > 2) With Windows7 let this editor run in admin-mode > Goto .exe-file -> right mouse-click -> compatibility -> run program > as admin (I'm running a German version maybe English names are slightly > different) > > 3) Make a git action like git add file > git commit > from the git bash. > > 4) Now following message appears: sh.exe: ./"editor of your choice": > Bad file number > > Everything is fine without Admin-Mode set for editor. Apparently “Bad file number” can mean “Permission denied” among other things on Windows. I do not have any better suggestion than to try running git bash as administrator too, sorry. Regards, Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html