Re: Editors invoked by git rebase -i

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Mittwoch, 2. Dezember 2009 13:38:54 schrieb Trevor Daniels:
> 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?

git-rebase uses the $EDITOR environment variable.

I suppose setting EDITOR=gedit should work... e.g. adding 
  export EDITOR=gedit 
to your .bashrc 
Alternatively you can also simply give it on the command line
  EDITOR=gedit git rebase -i

Cheers,
Reinhold
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