Cannot Commit in Cygwin/Git, Windows XP [Unrecognized TERM Type]

Question

Same issue when I try to open vi. bash is the shell I'm using. vi, or git commit, fails miserably saying "Unrecognized TERM Type".

I did some googling. They all suggests setting the TERM type manually like

export TERM=vt100

Tried and failed. stackoverflow is going to be my last hope. or maybe I should let go of cygwin/git and try something like TortoiseGit.

Any advices will be appreciated.

Answer 1

linux is the new vt100, try

export TERM=linux

you'll want to make sure that whatever you set TERM to exists in the /usr/share/terminfo subdirectory