I'm running MINGW64 on Windows 10. I'd like to change the names of some of my previous Git commits a la this StackOverflow answer. Git's been working great so far, and I can also run Vi/Vim through MINGW64 with no issues whatsoever.
The problems begin when I enter the command git rebase -i HEAD~1. I get this bizarre version of vim that doesn't seem to respond well to traditional Vim input. I hit the Esc key to navigate with arrows or with h, j, k, and l. But instead of navigating, it either overwrites existing characters with A, B, C, D (if using arrow keys) or with the characters h, j, k, and l.
Even using the traditional save/quit commands is bizarre. I hit Esc : and nothing appears at the bottom of the screen. I hit q!, and they appear in the text file, overwriting still more characters. I hit Enter and the file does quit without saving, so the functionality is correct, but there was no feedback on the screen to let me know that I would be successful.
I checked both my global .gitconfig file and my local config file (both of which I can edit just fine in Vim), and both of them have [core] editor set to vi.
Does anyone know what's going on? I've scoured the web for possible options that I need to add to my config files that might be needed, but I'm not seeing anything that looks like it will fix the problem.
