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

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Trevor Daniels <t.dani...@treda.co.uk>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
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