How to open git things in rubymine (instead of vim)

Rob Faldo
May 11, 2021

Quick post for anyone that wants to open things like git rebase master -i or git commit in RubyMine instead of vim.

In Rubymine:

Tools -> Create Command-line Launcher (/usr/local/bin/mine)

This will let you do mine . in the command line when in a project directory/file to open it, or you can use mine path/to/file to open a specific file.

Then open up your gitconfig

vi ~/.gitconfig

and add

[core]
editor = mine --wait

Now, when you run things like git commit it will open up a file in rubymine, allow you to edit it and then when you close the file it will continue.

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