Command to open file with git

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I have sublime text as the default editor in git  and it works  git config --edit opens the config file in sublime text  Awesome    My Question   What is the command to open say index html or style css from inside the project directory   Basically when I m working on a project I would like to be able to open a file from git   How to do this   Every tutorial seems to go over merge  clone  commit yes we all know these  how to do this simple command   Or is this not possible from within git    windows 7 msysgit version 1 8 0   I understand git is not a launcher and is strictly for version control  Just want to know what options I have with the tools at hand   The question came up while i was commiting a project and realized i needed to make a small edit to a css file i had closed already and was wondering if i could open to edit the file from within git since i had it up    Seems this is not possible  not the end of the world  I just like to understand all of my options with the tools i use is all

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To open a file in git  with windows you will type explorer      notice the space between explorer and the dot  On mac you can open it with open     and in Linux with nautilus     notice the period at the end of each one

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while you are working in some whatever project and you want to make a minor change you can use git default editor  however you d probably need a little script that parse the file generated by command below  git config -l   then the variable code editor holds the value  Applications Sublime Text app -n -w  which you can open using os system

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You can create an alias to open a file in your default editor by appending the following line to your  gitconfig file   edit     f       git config core editor  --        f    Then  git edit foo txt will open the file foo txt for editing   It s much easier to open  gitconfig with git config --global --edit and paste the line  rather than figure out how to escape all the characters to enter the alias directly from the command line with git config alias edit        How it works     starts a bash command  not an internal git command f          starts a function   git config core editor  will get the name of your editor  from the local config  or the global if the local is not set  Unfortunately it will not look in  VISUAL or  EDITOR for this  if none is set  -- separates the editor command with the file list  This works for most command line editors  so is safer to put in  If skipped and the core editor is not set then it is possible that an executable file is executed instead of being edited  With it here  the command will just fail     will add the files entered at the command line  f will execute the function after it is defined    Use case  The other answers express doubt as to why you would want this  My use case is that I want to edit files as part of other git functions that I am building  and I want to edit them in the same editor that the user has configured  For example  the following is one of my aliases   reedit     f       git config core editor  --   git diff --name-only  1      f    Then  git reedit will open all the files that I have already started modifying  and git reedit --cached will open all the staged files

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We would always prefer to use vi  -- to open a file vi  lt filename gt  -- to open a file

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I used Atom  to open files this works for me  atom index html   Hopefully this helps

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I was able to do this by using this command   notepad  gitignore   And it would open the  gitignore file in Notepad

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Assuming you are inside your repository root folder  alias notepad   c Program  Files    x86   Notepad   notepad   exe    then you can open any file with Notepad   with   notepad readme md

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Git has nothing to do with how you open edit files in your project  Configuring the editor in git is only so that git internal things that require an editor  commit messages for example  can use your preferred editor   If you just want to open files from the command line  cmd exe  as if they were double clicked in the windows explorer  I think you can use start  lt filename gt

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I know this is ancient  but I need to do this at the end of a git helper script  alias that creates aliases from a template   and found what I think is the real answer   There is a porcelain-ish helper called git-sh-setup that  when sourced  gives you a git editor function that     runs an editor of user   s choice  GIT EDITOR  core editor  VISUAL or EDITOR  on a given file  but error out if no editor is specified and the terminal is dumb    The git-sh-setup documentation description basically tells you not to use it  and that s probably good advice in this case   Fortunately  the git-sh-setup is a shell script and the git editor portion of it is pretty small  and we can just copy that   git editor         if test -z    GIT EDITOR  set       then         GIT EDITOR    git var GIT EDITOR      return        fi     eval   GIT EDITOR             You should be able to put that in your own scripts or turn it into a bash alias and then call it like git editor file1 txt file2 txt

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I found a workaround for this via this link  In a nutshell  you have to    Create a file named subl  or any name you d like for the command to call for Sublime Text  without extension Put this command inside the above file Replace the path for executable if necessary       bin sh  C  Program Files Sublime Text 2 sublime text exe   1  amp   Place that subl file inside the adequate command directory according to your OS and Sublime Text version  If you have doubts  check the above link comments section   In my case  I m using Sublime Text 3 with Windows 10 64bit so I placed it in   C  Program Files  x86  Git usr bin  Now  in order for you to open the desired file  in git bash use  within file folder   subl filename

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I just downloaded Git 2 7 0 and added an alias to the  bashrc for editing files with VS Code   alias code   c Program  Files    x86   Microsoft  VS  Code bin code cmd    Should also work with other Editors

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Brenton Alker above said  start   works -- I ll add a caveat to that  that works for all files that are already associated with sublime-text  as he says  it works as if they were double clicked in windows explorer    But if  for example  you wanted to open the  gitignore file from your shell into sublime text  and  gitignore is not associated with sublime text  here s what I did   I edited my PATH environment variable to contain the Sublime Text folder within program files  the one that holds sublime text exe  Now  in my terminal  I use powershell  but it works from any terminal   when I type  sublime text  gitignore  the  gitignore from my current directory opens in Sublime   I tried to make a  bat file called sublime bat that would work so that I could just type sublime  gitignore  but that didn t work - it opened sublime text but not the file for some reason  I m content with sublime text  tab completion simplifies it for me  actually -- simply  su tab   does the trick

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Maybe could be useful to open an editor from a script shared in a git repository  without assuming which editor could have anyone will use that script  but only that they have git   Here you can test if editor is set in git config  and also open files not associated with that editor   alias editor    git config core editor   if      alias editor   sed -r  s            1              then     editor  lt filename gt  else     start  lt filename gt  fi   Works great with my  gitconfig on windows    core      editor    C  Program Files Notepad   notepad   exe  -multiInst -notabbar -nosession -noPlugin

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To open a file in Sublime Text   Here is an example for opening a sample text file in Sublime Text editor  subl  lt filename gt  txt   subl is previously created as an alias name containing the directory file  using the  echo  command in Git Bash shell

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You can use the git command line as a terminal my dude you just know the commands are bash  To create a file  touch file txt   To open a file  code file py  atom file py start file py   ect  To open your current folder and everything inside of it in your text editor  code      To make a folder  mkdir folder1 folder2 folder3    You can make as many as you want at once this works with touch to

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Just use the vi   filename command   Example   vi stylesheet css   This will open vi editor with the file content   To start editing  press I

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You can use the following commands to open a file in git bash  vi  lt filename gt                -- to open a file  i                           -- to insert into the file   ESC button followed by  wq   -- to save and close the file   Hope it helps  Any other terminal based text editor  like vim  nano and many will also do the job just fine

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A simple solution to the problem is nano index html and git or any other terminal will open the file right on the terminal  then you edit from there   You see commands at the bottom of the edit page on how to save

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You must have an application associated with the file type   You must be in the folder that houses the file  In gitbash  start file extension

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