How to configure gedit as git core.editor?

Question

I have gedit configured as git core.editor.

git config --global core.editor \"gedit\"

This works fine unless there is already a gedit windo

Answer 1

All credit to VonC answer, but the -w makes gedit (3.18) crash on my ubuntu 16.04. Works fine without though:

git config --global core.editor "gedit -s"