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Development Tools Git Basics Getting Started With Git Committing Changes

Joshua Erskine
Joshua Erskine
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Posted by Joshua Erskine
Joshua Erskine
7,706 Points

If your editor looks different, and you want to Exit:

After you type git commit it takes you to a more colourful text editor, then you might be using Vim instead of nano or Notepad:

  1. Bring up the command-line at the bottom of the page via: SHIFT + q

  2. Type q!

if it says -- INSERT -- then you need to exit that mode first by hitting the ESC key.

Hope that helps.

You can force Windows Git-BASH to use Notepad via https://github.com/github/gitpad (as per previous video).

[ using Windows 7, Chrome, Git 2.7.0.windows.1 ]

2 Answers

Sage Elliott
Sage Elliott
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Sage Elliott
Sage Elliott
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Thanks for sharing! :D

Jane Eyer
Jane Eyer
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Jane Eyer
Jane Eyer
2,586 Points

If ctrl + x does not work for you then your git is using vim. In that case, Press esc and type ":wq" (w- means for write, q - means for quit) and press enter.

In the future if you want to use nano as a default text editor. then go to the main screen on terminal. type: nano ~/.gitconfig

The above command line will open an empty file and in the empty file type: git config core.editor "nano"

then press ctrl + x and enter to save and get out.

Happy gitting :D