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Re: Editors invoked by git rebase -i


From: Ralf Mattes
Subject: Re: Editors invoked by git rebase -i
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 15:52:29 +0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:38:54 +0000, Trevor Daniels wrote:

> I used "git rebase -i" to combine several commits into one for the first
> time recently.  This was in ubuntu. It threw me for a while because the
> first editor it brought up was nano (to edit the list of commits) and
> then vi (to edit the commit messages).  Not being familiar with either,
> the way to save and exit took me quite a few minutes to work out.
> 
> It it possible to configure git to use another editor, like the ubuntu
> default, gedit, for these?

Either set the environment variable GIT_EDITOR to the editor of your choice 
or use 'git-config core.editor <your-editor-here>' 

This is explained in the manpage 'git-config(7)'

HTH Ralf Mattes

> Trevor






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