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winston the dog
winston the dog

Reputation: 11

Incorrectly set up core.editor Git

I downloaded Git and added "sublimetext3" as core.editor value instead of "subl -n -w". I now added "subl -n -w" as core.editor value, but core.editor value "sublimetext3" is also there when I type git config --list

Also, I can't open .md file in terminal. I type Contributors.md and get the response

-bash: Contributors.md: command not found.

When I try to git config --edit I get the following:

error: cannot run sublimetext3: No such file or directory
error: unable to start editor 'sublimetext3'.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 580

Answers (1)

Romain Valeri
Romain Valeri

Reputation: 21998

Check your local and global configs, and compare : 

git config --local --list

git config --global --list

You might have set it at one level with subl but being overridden by the other setting with sublimetext3

Then if so, to set it right, explicitly give the level of config when setting the property :

git config --global core.editor "subl -n -w"
# and/or
git config --local core.editor "subl -n -w"

(I didn't mention --system, --worktree or --file which exist too, because I guess it's less likely that you would have changed that without knowing, but might be worth checking, see all details here in the doc)

Upvotes: 2

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