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I have VS Community 2019 installed. After a reboot, I have the the .gitconfig file opening in Notepad. I want to make VS 2019 my default Git editor and thought I could do this after installing Git. I tried setting the environment variable path (and rebooting) to:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TeamFoundation\Team Explorer\Git\cmd

but it didn't work.

During the Git install process I did not see VS 2019 Community as an option. Does anyone know how to do this?

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I don't think it is possible to use Visual Studio as the git editor.

You can't even find documentation on the subject because I think it is a bad idea so that perhaps explained why no one tried it...

To be a good git editor, an editor must:

  1. be very quick to launch
  2. open a new instance that git will wait for it's closing

It is recommended to use another lightweight editor: notepad++, Visual Studio Code, ... Some of them even proposing syntax coloring for git file.

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