Git Interactive Rebase Tool is a terminal-based sequence editor for Git’s interactive rebase facility. It replaces the normal text-editor workflow with a purpose-built interface for changing actions, rearranging commits and inspecting the history being rewritten.
The interface remains focused on the rebase todo list rather than trying to replace Git as a whole. Keyboard commands handle the common editing operations directly, while an external editor remains available when a change is easier to make manually.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Set rebase actions including pick, squash, fixup, edit, reword and drop.
- Reorder commits in the rebase list with direct keyboard commands.
- Visual mode allows actions to be applied to several selected lines at once.
- Insert new lines into the rebase todo list.
- Duplicate the currently selected line with a keyboard shortcut.
- Toggle break instructions in the sequence.
- View commit summaries without leaving the rebase interface.
- Open a full diff for the selected commit.
- Edit exec commands directly from the interface.
- Open the todo file in an external editor and return to the terminal interface afterwards.
- Undo previous modifications made to the rebase sequence.
- Supports Unicode and emoji in commit information.
- An optional post-modification command can inject exec actions after modified lines.
- Key bindings and other interface behaviour can be customised through Git configuration.
- Cross-platform support – runs natively on Linux as well as other major desktop operating systems.
Website: github.com/MitMaro/git-interactive-rebase-tool
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Developer: Tim Oram
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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