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[Draft] Guides & best practices for application development at CoA
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Add instructions for setting default Git editor on Windows #20

Open mattlangan opened 7 years ago

mattlangan commented 7 years ago

The GitHub-provided instructions didn't work for me or Addy so I gotta figure out what is required to actually get it working. I suspect it's an issue with specifying an application path within the user directory rather than system root.

mattlangan commented 7 years ago

Per recent conversations with Divya we decided to table Windows-specific stuff for now. I specified that instructions are Mac-only, and in certain places told Windows users to sign up for a training session if they wanted to configure their machines.

mattlangan commented 7 years ago

For reference, the only thing missing from the GitHub documentation on this is that you need to find the specific Atom version path and set the path accordingly

GitHub provides:

$ git config --global core.editor "C:/Users/_USERNAME_/AppData/Local/atom/app-_VERSION_/atom.exe"

But what it needed to be for me is 

$ git config --global core.editor "C:/Users/LanganMa/AppData/Local/atom/app-1.8.6/atom.exe"

Kind of a case of rtfm but also the docs could have specified that you need to set those values. I definitely glossed over the actually command the first couple of times because I had no indication from the instructions that it wasn't a straight copy-and-paste job.