Re: Editors invoked by git rebase -i

[Jonathan Kulp]

[whoops! sent only to Trevor the first time...]

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Trevor Daniels <address@hidden> 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?

Trevor

 

Trevor,

I didn't know you were running Ubuntu now! Cool. Try this command:

$ git config --global core.editor gedit

and see if that takes care of it. I got it from this site, which may be helpful for other issues in the future as well:



http://progit.org/book/

Jon