How do I use vim as 'git show' editor?

Question

all as described in How do I use vim as 'git log' editor? doesn\'t work for git show . I use often

git show HEAD

ctrl+z 

ps 

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Answer 1

can simply use git show bf9f84042 | vim - in edit mod, or git show bf9f84042 | vim -R - in read only mod, without changing gitconfig

or

git config --global diff.tool vimdiff using vimdiff as diff.tool, and then git difftool bf9f042 232wf2f to diff