The problem you are encountering using Notepad++ is related to how Git is launching the editor executable. My solution to this is to set environment variable EDITOR to a batch file, rather than the actual editor executable, that does the following:
The problem you are encountering using Notepad++ is related to how Git is launching the editor executable. My solution to this is to set environment variable EDITOR to a batch file, rather than the actual editor executable, that does the following: