Git is using Vim for Commit messages

Question

I have just started using git and when I git commit it uses the VIM text editor to change write the commit message. Is this normal?

In the tutorials and examples I have read, nowhere has VIM been used.

Is it because I'm using windows 7 64 bit edition?

Answer 1

If you did not set an editor via the $GIT_EDITOR environment variable, core.editor configuration variable, the $VISUAL or $EDITOR environment variables, it will use vi.