Cannot set the commit-message editor

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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
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