Git Interactive Rebase Tool

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

This is the documentation for the development build. For the current stable release, please use the 2.1.x documentation.

Table of Contents

• Features
• Install
• Setup
• Usage
• Customization
• Development
• Related Projects
• License

Features

Cross-platform

Built and works on Linux, macOS, Windows and BSD.

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 breaks

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 tool.

Setup

Most systems

git config --global sequence.editor interactive-rebase-tool

Windows

Standard Command Prompt

git config --global sequence.editor "'C:/path/to/interactive-rebase-tool.exe'"

GitBash

GitBash 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"

Notes

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.

Temporary Override

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>]]

Usage

interactive-rebase-tool <rebase-todo-filepath>
interactive-rebase-tool --help
interactive-rebase-tool --version

Getting Help

The tool has built-in help that can be accessed by hitting the ? key.

Default Key Bindings

Key bindings can be configured, see configuration for more information.

Development

Install Rust

To start developing the project, you will need to install Rust, which can generally be done using rustup.

Setup

Debian and derivatives

If 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-dev

Build and run

Use cargo to build and run the project. From the project root run:

# only build
cargo build --release
# build and run
cargo run -- <path-to-git-rebase-todo-file>

Tests

Automated tests are available for all features and ran be run with:

cargo test

Linting

The project uses Clippy to provide additional linting, run with:

./scripts/lint.bash

Format

This project uses rust-fmt to provide a consistent format. A helpful script will ensure that all files are formatted correctly:

./scripts/format.bash

Release

Install Cargo Deb

cargo install cargo-deb

Building

cargo build --release
cargo deb

A deb file will be written to target/debian/interactive-rebase-tool_*.deb.

Related Projects

• rebase-editor is a very similar project written in Node.js.
• cj-git-patchtool is another tool for doing git rebase en masse.

License

Git Interactive Rebase Tool is released under the GPLv3 license. See LICENSE.

See Third Party Licenses for licenses of the third-party libraries used by this project.