How do I make Git use the editor of my choice for commits?

Question

I would prefer to write my commit messages in Vim, but it is opening them in Emacs.

How do I configure Git to always use Vim? Note that I want to do this globally,

Answer 1

When using git-review I had to modify sequence.editor value to be able to do interactive rebase (git rebase -i -p):

git config --global sequence.editor "gvim"  # or whatever your prefer

gvim require: apt install vim-gtk

References

• #2944 Interactive Rebase failed with warning: "Vim: Warning: Output is not to a terminal"
• Install section of sjurba/rebase-editor