Making git use Sublime Text for rebase etc

make-git-use-sublime.markdown

Making git use Sublime Text

First up, let's make Sublime Text 2 available from the command line in terminal, by creating a link to subl which is the launcher from terminal:

ln -s /Applications/Sublime\ Text\ 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl /usr/local/bin/sublime

(added bonus of this approach is when you upgrade to ST3 or change text editor, you can just redirect the symlink).

If there's any chance that bash doesn't check usr/local/bin then use Launch Sublime Text 2 from Mac OSX Terminal for more detailed instructions on how to make this happen.

Now tell git to use sublime:

git config --global core.editor "sublime -n -w"

(the -n = new window; -w = wait for file to be closed before returning. If you don't use the latter option, Sublime doesn't actually let you edit before returning to the in process git rebase or similar.)

Et voila, from now on when you do a rebase or similar, it should open in Sublime Text.

Sources

• Launch Sublime Text 2 from Mac OSX Terminal
• Associating editors with git
• Sublime Text OSX command line

Hey thanks, that is really useful !

Thank you !

👍

Thanks!

Thank you!

THANK YOU

Cheers mate

Thanks

i am getting this error message:

hint: Waiting for your editor to close the file... sublime -n -w: sublime: command not found
error: There was a problem with the editor 'sublime -n -w'.

@Nisim761 This worked for me: git config --global core.editor "/Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl --new-window --wait"

Fore reference, recommendation about configuration found on git documentation

if you just need it for a one-time complicated edit... GIT_EDITOR='subl -n -w' git rebase -i