Amazing git additional tool to install: git-interactive-rebase-tool

Christophe Colombier - Apr 24 -

- Dev Community

git rebase --interactive (or git rebase -i) is a great command. The Swiss army knife in git.

Many of us are using it daily,
I will explain how to make its usage easier.

Note: if you're not familiar with it. You can look at the bottom of my article where I give you resources to discover it.

When dealing with git interactive rebase, git opens your $EDITOR by default, so your editor is opened with a text file where you can reorder the line to reorder the commits, replace pick by fixup, squash, drop…. It's convenient, but there is a tool to make things easier.

MitMaro / git-interactive-rebase-tool

Native cross-platform full feature terminal-based sequence editor for git interactive rebase.

Git Interactive Rebase Tool

Native cross-platform full-featured terminal-based sequence editor for interactive rebase in Git 1.7.8+.

Table of Contents

Features

Cross-platform

Built and works on Linux, macOS, Windows, and many others.

Set action

Easily set the action to pick, squash, fixup, edit, reword and drop.

Reorder rebase list

Reorder the action list with a single key press.

Multiline modification

Change action and reorder multiple lines at once with visual mode.

Toggle `break`s

View commit details and diff

View the commit overview, and a full commit diff with a press of a key.

Unicode and Emoji support

Edit `exec` command

Easily edit the command that is run by an exec command.

Edit in external editor

Need to do something in your Git editor? Quickly shell out to your editor, make a change and return to the…

It relies on the ability to define a specific editor for git rebase --interactive

This tool is amazing! It changed my life. Here is what it looks like and allows:

Reorder the commits

Choose the action by pressing a single key

There are others features you will discover by reading the documentation.

The maintainers are currently working on a new version, so I recommend you using the last stable version, here is the documentation

https://github.com/MitMaro/git-interactive-rebase-tool/blob/2.3.0/README.md

about git rebase interactive

If you want to discover git rebase interactive, you can read these posts:

rlxdprogrammer

Advanced GIT tutorial - Interactive rebase

Marcell Lipp ・ Mar 12 '20

#changecommitmessag #changeoldcommit #deletecommit #git

schalkneethling

How do you use git rebase? Let's go through one use case

Schalk Neethling ・ Apr 23

#webdev #git #howto

This last post made by @schalkneethling inspired me to talk about this tool that changed my life.

Image credits: Tim Oram (@mitmaro) on GitHub and dev.to the git-interactive-rebase-tool maintainer.

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