How to configure gedit as git core.editor?

Question

I have gedit configured as git core.editor.

git config --global core.editor \"gedit\"

This works fine unless there is already a gedit windo

Answer 1

All credit to VonC answer, but the -w makes gedit (3.18) crash on my ubuntu 16.04. Works fine without though:

git config --global core.editor "gedit -s"

Answer 2

The simplest way to solve this would be to upgrade gedit (which is at 3.8.3 with an Ubuntu 13.10)

In 3.x, -s (standalone) and -w (wait) are available.
That allows for (as commented by Fortisimo):

git config --global core.editor "gedit -w -s" 

As Gábor Lipták comments below, this works with gedit3, which is installed with:

sudo apt-get install gedit-common/trusty 
sudo apt-get install gedit/trusty

(on Linux Mint)