Re: A new way to get a sha1?

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Thomas Badie [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi all,

When I should fixup or squash a commit, I nearly never
remember how to get the sha1 of the commit I want to fixup.
Because sometimes HEAD~n is not enough, I make `git log`,
copy the sha1 of the right commit and paste it in my git
fixup command. So I wrote a perl script to avoid the usage
of the mouse. And after discussion with some of my friends,
this can be generalized as a generic command line interface
tool to get a sha1.

The idea is to have a perl module which run through
the log history and print 10 shortlog associated with a number
from 0 to 9, and a message below "Select commit [| 0, 9 |] or
next row ?" or this kind of message with several options.

In general, I prefer nothing to be *interactive*, so I would vote an
emphatic no.

Also, try "tig" and see if you can customise it.  For example, in
order to create a new commit that is meant to be a fixup of some other
commit, I 'git add' what is needed (either command line or tig again)
then hit "m" to the main window, scroll down to the commit concerned,
and hit "=".

That "=" comes from this line in ~/.tigrc:

    bind    main            =   !git commit --fixup=%(commit)

Please use such methods to keep interactivity where it belongs, is my opinion.