[NFBCS] Help with GIT editors

[Ryan Stevens]

Hello, Jim,

 

Thanks for your response. My main concern is being able to place comments in the commit editor (and possibly the revert editor) in a terminal window. I found a keyboard short cut to cleanly enter the comment (Alt-G, C), but I’m still stuck trying to save it and return to the command line. Are you aware of any, and would switching to VSCode simplify the process? Thanks.

 

From: NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Jim Bauer via NFBCS
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2025 3:53 PM
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Cc: Jim Bauer <holdsworthfan at eml.cc>
Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Help with GIT editors

 

You can change the git editor with the "core.editor" config option. For example, "git config --global core.editor code --wait" sets vscode as the default git editor everywhere.

"git status" shows tracked/modified/etc. files in the repo.

Though old, the Git book has helped me:

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2

 

 

On 8/28/2025 8:36 AM, Ryan Stevens via NFBCS wrote:

Hello,

 

My company is moving to GIT as our source control after years on SourceGear Vault. I have been learning and working with GIT on Windows Command Line and GIT Bash relatively easily, but there are a couple of snags. First, committing and reverting code require a message/description, and trying to enter them doesn’t seem to be working properly, and I get stuck in the commit editor. I do use the -m parameter in the commit command to get around this, but I don’t always remember to do so. For revert, it looks like I need to use the --no-commit parameter, then run a commit -m. Second, the training books point out that filenames appear in different colors based on their status, and I have no idea how to check that in the terminal window. I use the latest version of JAWS, and I’m wondering if there are keyboard shortcuts for these issues. Alternatively, are there other GIT editors that are accessible and handle these problems?

 

Thanks and take care,

Ryan Stevens

 





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