I have downloaded the latest git from git-scm on my windows machine. I am using git on windows, I am having trouble trying to get notepad++ as my commit message editor. I have created a shell script called npp.sh which has the following content /c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Notepad++/notepad++.exe -multiInst -nosession -noPlugin $1 I figured this is how paths are accepted in git-bash Now I configured core.editor this way git config --global core.editor /c/path/to/npp.sh when I try to commit, using the following command git commit I get the following error $ git commit error: cannot spawn c:/path/to/npp.sh: No such file or directory error: unable to start editor 'c:/dev/tools/cmd/npp.sh' Please supply the message using either -m or -F option. when I run the following command ls c:/ I get the directory for my repository's root, not C drive's root When I run the following command through git-bash /c/path/to/npp.sh It works but when git commit invokes, it does not. Here is more of what I found when 'git commit' launches npp.sh, it changes /c/path/to/npp.sh to c:/path/to/npp.sh c:/ is not the root of my C drive according to git-bash, c:/ is root of my repository because when I run 'ls c:/' I get files from root of my repository. so may be if 'git commit' does not change /c/path/to/npp.sh to c:/path/to/npp.sh, it would work... Or if git-bash does not mount c:/ to /c/path/to/myrepository and keep it to /c it would work too. Please let me know if you need more info on this Thanks Fahad -- 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