Forum:Default git commit message is missing

I have using cygwin on Windows 8.1 to run git and have

editor = "'C:/Program Files (x86)/Notepad++/notepad++.exe' -multiInst -nosession -noPlugin"

in my .gitconfig file. Notepad++ comes up when I do a git commit command with no message but the file is empty. The default git commit message is missing so when I save the file I have to pick a name and the commit is aborted because git doesn't know where the message is. Any help would be appreciated.