Native cross-platform full-featured terminal-based sequence editor for interactive rebase in Git 1.7.8+.
Built and works on Linux, macOS, Windows, and many others.
Easily set the action to pick, squash, fixup, edit, reword and drop.
Reorder the action list with a single key press.
Change action and reorder multiple lines at once with visual mode.
View the commit overview, and a full commit diff with a press of a key.
Easily edit the command that is run by an exec command.
Need to do something in your Git editor? Quickly shell out to your editor, make a change and return to the tool.
This optional feature allows for the injection of an exec action after modified lines, where modified is determined as a changed action, command, or reference. This can be used to amend commits to update references in the commit message or run a test suite only on modified commits.
To enable this option, set the interactive-rebase-tool.postModifiedLineExecCommand option, providing an executable or script.
git config --global interactive-rebase-tool.postModifiedLineExecCommand "/path/to/global/script"Or using repository-specific configuration, for targeted scripts.
git config --global interactive-rebase-tool.postModifiedLineExecCommand "/path/to/repo/script"The first argument provided to the script will always be the action performed. Then, depending on the action, the script will be provided a different set of arguments.
For drop, fixup, edit, pick, reword and squash actions, the script will additionally receive the original commit hash, for exec the original and new commands are provided, and for label, reset, merge, and update-ref the original label/reference and new label/reference are provided.
Full example of a resulting rebase todo file, assuming that interactive-rebase-tool.postModifiedLineExecCommand was set to script.sh.
# original line: label onto
label new-onto
exec script.sh "label" "onto" "new-onto"
# original line: reset onto
reset new-onto
exec script.sh "reset" "onto" "new-onto"
pick a12345 My feature
# original line: pick b12345 My change
squash b12345 My change
exec script.sh "squash" "b12345"
# original line: label branch
label branch
exec script.sh "label" "branch" "new-branch"
# original line: exec command
exec new-command
exec script.sh "exec" "command" "new-command"
git config --global sequence.editor interactive-rebase-toolgit config --global sequence.editor "'C:/path/to/interactive-rebase-tool.exe'"Git Bash requires the use of winpty in order to work correctly, so to set the editor use:
git config --global sequence.editor "winpty /c/path/to/interactive-rebase-tool.exe"Windows before version 10 has serious rendering issues with saturated darker colors, such as the blue color that is entirely illegible on modern displays. While it is possible to avoid using saturated colors, a better option is to update the theme using Microsoft's ColorTool.
You can temporarily use a different sequence editor by using the GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR environment variable:
GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR=emacs git rebase -i [<upstream> [<branch>]]interactive-rebase-tool <rebase-todo-filepath>
interactive-rebase-tool --help
interactive-rebase-tool --versionThe tool has built-in help that can be accessed by using the ? key.
Key bindings can be customized, see configuration for all key bindings and information on configuring.
| Key | Mode | Description |
|---|---|---|
? |
All | Show help |
| Up | Normal/Diff | Move selection up |
| Down | Normal/Diff | Move selection down |
| Page Up | Normal/Diff | Move selection up five lines |
| Page Down | Normal/Diff | Move selection down five lines |
| Home | Normal/Diff | Move selection to start of list |
| End | Normal/Diff | Move selection to home of list |
q |
Normal/Diff | Abort interactive rebase |
Q |
Normal/Diff | Immediately abort interactive rebase |
w |
Normal/Diff | Write interactive rebase file |
W |
Normal/Diff | Immediately write interactive rebase file |
j |
Normal/Diff | Move selected commit(s) down |
k |
Normal/Diff | Move selected commit(s) up |
b |
Normal | Toggle break action |
p |
Normal/Diff | Set selected commit(s) to be picked |
r |
Normal/Diff | Set selected commit(s) to be reworded |
e |
Normal/Diff | Set selected commit(s) to be edited |
s |
Normal/Diff | Set selected commit(s) to be squashed |
f |
Normal/Diff | Set selected commit(s) to be fixed-up |
d |
Normal | Set selected commit(s) to be dropped |
d |
Diff | Show full commit diff |
E |
Normal | Edit the command of an editable action |
v |
Normal/Diff | Enter and exit visual mode (for selection) |
I |
Normal | Insert a new line |
Delete |
Normal/Diff | Remove selected lines |
! |
Normal/Diff | Open todo file in external editor |
Control+z |
Normal/Diff | Undo the previous change |
Control+y |
Normal/Diff | Redo the previously undone change |
c |
Normal/Diff | Show commit information |
| Down | Diff | Scroll view down |
| Up | Diff | Scroll view up |
| Left | Diff | Scroll view left |
| Right | Diff | Scroll view right |
| Home | Diff | Scroll view to the top |
| End | Diff | Scroll view to the end |
| PageUp | Diff | Scroll view a step up |
| PageDown | Diff | Scroll view a step down |
Supported on all Linux based distributions. The project is tested on Debian and Ubuntu, but should work on any standard Linux distribution. If the project is not working on your platform, please open an issue.
The tool is tested in Tilix and Gnome Terminal.
Supported on the latest version of macOS, though previous versions should work.
The tool is tested in iTerm2 and Terminal.
Supported on the latest versions of Windows 10 and Windows 11.
The tool is tested on Windows 11 in PowerShell and Command Prompt inside Windows Console and Windows Terminal. The latest version of Git Bash provided from Git for Windows is also supported.
Windows Console and Git Bash are only minimally supported, and some features or graphical glitches may occur. Windows Console running in legacy mode is not supported.
Cygwin is not officially supported.
Other platforms are not officially supported. Some platforms have community support, and if you are having trouble getting the project working on your platform, please open an issue.
To start developing the project, you will need to install Rust, which can generally be done using rustup.
This project uses cargo-make as a task runner. To install:
cargo install --force cargo-makeIf you plan to build a release package you will need pkg-config and liblzma-dev. They can be installed using apt:
sudo apt install pkg-config liblzma-devTo build or run the project, from the project root run:
# only build
cargo make build --release
# build and run
cargo run -- <path-to-git-rebase-todo-file>Sample rebase todo files can be found in ./test/fixtures.
Automated tests are available for all features and can be run with:
cargo make testAPI docs for the project are generated using Rust Doc:
cargo make docsAn addition to the lints provided by rustc, this project uses Clippy to provide additional linting, run with:
cargo make lintThis will run lints using stable and nightly. The nightly lints may show errors, but will not result in a failure.
This project uses rust-fmt to provide a consistent format. A helpful script will ensure that all files are formatted correctly:
cargo make formatThe project use Tarpaulin to generate coverage reports. Coverage reports are used to find gaps in tests. To generate the coverage report:
cargo make coverageAn addition to the report printed to the CLI, an HTML report can be found in the coverage directory.
cargo make build-debA deb file will be written to target/debian/git-interactive-rebase-tool_*.deb.
cargo make build-rpmA rpm file will be written to target/generate-rpm/git-interactive-rebase-tool-*.deb.
Providing a SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable with a valid Unix timestamp, defined in seconds, will ensure a reproducible build.
- rebase-editor is a very similar project written in Node.js.
- cj-git-patchtool is another tool for doing
git rebaseen masse. - andrewshadura/git-crecord provides interactive selection of changes to a commit.
Copyright © 2017-2024 Tim Oram and Contributors
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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