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magit-status sees the repo just fine, and I can even push to Github, or make a branch. I can also commit through the git cli no problem.

However, before I can even write my commit message on magit I get the following error:

 1 git … commit --
hint: Waiting for your editor to close the file...
Waiting for Emacs...
*ERROR*: Not inside Git repository
error: There was a problem with the editor '/usr/bin/emacsclient.emacs --socket-name=/run/user/1000/emacs/server39157'.
Please supply the message using either -m or -F option.

I read (with-editor)Configuring With-Editor on magit's manual, but I don't believe my installation of Emacs is abnormal. I installed it through the usual sudo apt install emacs. Furthermore, both emacsclient and emacsclient.emacs are located on /usr/bin. I tried customizing with-editor-emacsclient-executable to just usr/bin/emacsclient (no .emacs), to no avail.

There's a couple of lines to note in the output of with-editor-debug. For brevity, I've added the entire output to this pastebin.

  server-auth-dir: ~/.emacs.d/server/
    WARNING: not an accessible directory

When I checked, the server sub-directory didn't exist. I tried creating it, but still, no success.

I'd be grateful if someone could give me directions on this. Committing through cli is getting tiresome 😅.

My installation's versions is:

Magit 20221008.1927 [>= 3.3.0-git], Git 2.34.1, Emacs 27.1, gnu/linux

Cheers!

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  • Can you open an existing file with emacsclient <somefile>? How about a non-existent file, writing something into it and saving it? If those succeed, then it's probably a magit problem; otherwise it's an emacsclient one.
    – NickD
    Oct 16, 2022 at 4:42
  • @NickD Just tried that. Seems to work just fine, both opening an existing file, and creating/saving another. I did have to start the server from emacs, I'm assuming that's standard procedure. I also tried committing again, but previously starting the server, same thing. Looks like a magit thing still.
    – vtrincado.h
    Oct 16, 2022 at 13:28
  • I found one github issue about this. Does any of this sound familiar to you? github.com/magit/with-editor/issues/69
    – g-gundam
    Oct 16, 2022 at 16:04
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    @g-gundam Similar symptoms, but my error message doesn't seem external to magit. As suggested in that issue, I searched for the error on the installed packages. Turns out, it's from magit-git.el. In it, one of the four functions that raise the same error is magit-inside-gitdir-p. And sure enough, if I run the commented command git rev-parse --is-inside-git-dir in the working directory, it returns false. I don't know yet what this means, but I'm starting to think there's a bad config somewhere.
    – vtrincado.h
    Oct 16, 2022 at 21:50
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    Concerning exec-path, emacs can find the git executable no problem. Git is also in PATH, and exec-path is set to it's location.
    – vtrincado.h
    Oct 16, 2022 at 21:53

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