Setting up sublimetext 3 as git commit text editor
You can solve this by putting in a full path
git config --global core.editor "/Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl -n -w"
Source: OS X Command Line
EDIT: If the name of the app is not Sublime Text.app
you will want to replace that with the correct name.
For what it's worth, here's how I solved it:
1) Run in Terminal:
sudo ln -s /Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl /usr/local/bin/subl
This adds a subl
alias to /usr/local/bin/
pointing to Sublime Text 3 app’s binary file. Now running subl
in Terminal will launch Sublime Text 3 app.
2) Run in Terminal:
git config --global core.editor "subl -n -w"
This adds editor = subl -n -w
to the [core]
section of the ~/.gitconfig
file. Now running git commit
in Terminal will launch Sublime Text 3 app (subl
) in a new window (-n
), and the command line will wait (-w
) until the commit message is saved and closed.
Image of final workflow added in response to clarifying question in comments below:
Official Sublime Text 3 doc: http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/3/osx_command_line.html