[CLOSED] Git and Brackets are linked somehow and I can't undo it

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Issue by hughesgm8 Wednesday Dec 06, 2017 at 00:21 GMT Originally opened as https://github.com/adobe/brackets/issues/13958

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Description

I had a repeating issue where, whenever I pulled changes from a remote git repository, my terminal would print the following several times and launch Brackets:

[warn] kq_init: detected broken kqueue; not using.: Undefined error: 0

I have no idea why it launched Brackets, especially since Sublime Text is my default editor and I never use Brackets anymore. In order to stop that, I uninstalled Brackets. Now when I try to pull I get this message:

error: There was a problem with the editor '/Applications/Brackets.app/Contents/MacOS/Brackets -wl1'.
Not committing merge; use 'git commit' to complete the merge.

And when I try again:

error: You have not concluded your merge (MERGE_HEAD exists).
hint: Please, commit your changes before merging.
fatal: Exiting because of unfinished merge.

This happens when I have not made any local changes and git should just pull all new changes without conflict. I know at some point, years ago, I made Brackets my default editor, but soon switched to Sublime Text. Git and Brackets must still be linked somehow but I don't know how to figure it out.

Versions

N/A because I uninstalled Brackets, but I'm running MacOS High Sierra.

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Comment by petetnt Thursday Dec 07, 2017 at 13:27 GMT

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Hi@hughesgm8,

sounds like your git config core.editor or GIT_EDITOR env variable has been set to brackets for some reason.

You can reset it with

git config --global core.editor "vim"

# or if it has been set with the ENV variable
export GIT_EDITOR=vim

(You can also set vim to Sublime Text if you want to).

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Comment by petetnt Sunday Jan 21, 2018 at 16:38 GMT

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Closing as answered, do ping back if the issue still persists