If you are hardcore Textmate user, you may feel annoyed everytime when you fire the “git commit -a” command. The default editor used by Git is Vim. By applying a small change, you can change the default editor to Textmate instead of Vim.

In Terminal, type:

git config core.editor "mate -w"

Now, you are done. You have changed the default editor in Git to Textmate. Besides that, you can in fact use this command:

git commit -a -m "Hi I am a hardcore Textmate user."

This command will automatically add the new commit message “Hi I am a hardcore Textmate user.” to your new commit instead of firing up an editor to write your commit message.

Happy Gitting!