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So then I am not wrong that I do all my git commit messages via the "-m" commandline option with a short phrase like "frob the baz"?

(Initially I started using -m to avoid getting trapped in Vim. But even after I gained the option to use e.g. Notepad++ as the editor, I never saw the point in using anything more than "-m 'message'".)

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Git respects the EDITOR environment variable and has done for decades (so likely before many here really used it) - you should probably be setting that (or equivalent on your platform) to the editor you want anyway.

Weird workaround just to avoid basic configuration seems like more work in the long run.

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