How do I change the text editor used by Git to micro?

I like the Micro text editor. I prefer it to nano, personally. However, even when I have it installed, Git defaults to nano. How can I change what text editor git commit uses?

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It's pretty easy. All you have to do is this, and the next time you commit, Git will use micro instead of nano.

$ git config --global core.editor "micro"

This is pretty flexible. We can set it back to nano:

$ git config --global core.editor "nano"

Or we can have it use vi:

$ git config --global core.editor "vi"

This will work for most text editors. I only have those three on my system right now, but that should work for others, like emacs, too.

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