Francis T. O'Donovan

Data Science Manager at Hospital IQ – Planet discoverer, researcher, developer, geek.

Git: Change default editor for git

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To set the default editor for git to be say Textwrangler, use:

git config --global core.editor "edit -w"

Via StackOverflow.

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