If your terminal freezes after closing your editor, Git is likely still waiting for a closing signal from your application. Ensure you have appended the necessary waiting flags (like -w or --wait ) to your core.editor global configuration. Accidentally Closed Without Saving
To set a global template, you would use a command like this in your terminal: COMMIT-EDITMSG
If you are writing scripts that generate commits, you might want to programmatically construct a message. If your terminal freezes after closing your editor,