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As mentioned above, I am looking for something like this:

$ git commit -m "my first commit" --editor="vim"

that will allow me to one-off swap editor for a single run. Examples where this might be useful is when squashing lengthy histories or writing up messages for a feature commit.

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You can override EDITOR environment variable just for one git execution: 

EDITOR=nano git commit -a
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  • This doesn't work for me, because I have a default editor configured globally in `~/.gitconfig`, and this command fails to override it. – abeboparebop Aug 02 '23 at 14:13