Change the default editor for git commit

17 August 2010 By junedkazi 0

There are many ways to change the default editor used for entering committing message to the git repository.

1 - Commit using the command line itself

$ git commit -m "my first commit"

2 - Change the editor using the command line and git command
I prefer emacs so I will use emacs as my default git commit editor.

$ git config --global core.editor "emacs"

3 - Add the editor info to the gitconfig file

$ cd
$ emacs .gitconfig

Once you have opened the file add the following lines to it

[core]
	editor = emacs

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