There are some pitfalls. One for instance is that it starts the editor wrong when running msysgit in the cygwin shell. Naturally I tried specifying different paths and ended up with the following configuration of gitconfig:c:\cygwin\home\wallymathieu.gitconfig[core]  editor = “"/c/Program Files (x86)/Vim/vim73/gvim.exe"”<div style="clear: both;"></div>