Re: Editors invoked by git rebase -i

[Jean-Charles Malahieude]

Le 02/12/2009 13:38, Trevor Daniels disait :
> 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?
>
> Trevor

Found in git-config.html, section about variables

"core.editor

    Commands such as commit and tag that lets you edit messages by 
launching an editor uses the value of this variable when it is set, and 
the environment variable GIT_EDITOR is not set. The order of preference 
is GIT_EDITOR environment, core.editor, VISUAL and EDITOR environment 
variables and then finally vi."

HTH
Jean-Charles