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Jaime Reynoso
Jaime Reynoso
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Posted by Jaime Reynoso
Jaime Reynoso
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I have a question.

Lets say I'm working on a website and im building it on sublime text 2. Now I want to use git but how do you commit changes that were made on an application like sublime text 2? We used nano, but can you use commits from outside applications

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Tommy Morgan
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Tommy Morgan
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Tommy Morgan
Tommy Morgan
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Hey Jaime Reynoso -

Do you mean use ST2 to edit your commit messages? There are a couple of different ways you can do this:

1) Use a ST2 plugin for Git. A lot of extensible text editors have plugins to help you interact with Git without ever leaving the editor, and ST2 is no exception. The plugin I've used before is sublime-text-git, which seems to be the community standard. It will give you ST2 commands you can use to view your repo status, add/remove files from the staging area, commit changes, view the log, and more.

2) Change the default editor in Git directly. This option will make ST2 your default editor when you run commands like git commit from the console. GitHub has some succinct directions.