How to configure Git editor
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Setting your preferred text editor for Git operations like writing commit messages and interactive rebases improves your development workflow significantly.
As the creator of CoreUI with over 25 years of development experience, I’ve configured Git across hundreds of different development environments.
The most straightforward solution is to use the git config core.editor command to set your editor of choice globally or per repository.
This ensures Git always opens your preferred editor for interactive operations.