How to make Git use the editor of our own choice for commits

Question

Hi Guys,

I am new to the version control tool Git. I am not comfortable with the default editor that git used. How can I use the editor of our own choice for commits?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You can set the editor name in the Git config file. There are two ways to set the editor's name as shown below.

Set core.editor in your Git config: git config --global core.editor "vim"
Set the GIT_EDITOR environment variable: export GIT_EDITOR=vim