[git] How do I make Git use the editor of my choice for commits?

When using git-review I had to modify sequence.editor value to be able to do interactive rebase (git rebase -i -p):

git config --global sequence.editor "gvim"  # or whatever your prefer

gvim require: apt install vim-gtk

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