Command to open file with git

Question

• 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

Answer 1

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 <filename>.

Answer 2

I was able to do this by using this command:

notepad .gitignore 

And it would open the .gitignore file in Notepad.