Git-commit unable to open vim

Question

Recently I installed bash-it into my terminal. Now, when I try to execute git commit the terminal shows me this error:

/usr/bin/mate -w: /usr/bin/mate: No such file or directory error: cannot run /usr/bin/mate -w: No such file or directory error: There was a problem with the editor '/usr/bin/mate -w'. Please supply the message using either -m or -F option.

Before bash-it, the commit command correctly opened vim. Of course I've tried to change the core.editor in git to "vim" but it does not work anyway.

Could you please help me to solve this? I really like vim, it was super easy and fast...I don't want to use TextMate to edit the commit message.

PS: I'm using Mac OSX

Answer 1

Try using the below command. Should be able to set your editor back to vi or vim. However, you might have to give the absolute path to vim.

git config --global core.editor vim