Re: rebase -i: quick/inline reword

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

Johannes Altmanninger [off-list ref] writes:

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  !f() { GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR=true git rebase -i --autosquash "$@"; };f

These are very good and useful features indeed, and they are examples of
batch processing that is very handy for automation, but lacks
interactivity. What I rather have in mind is being able to put all the
messages /simultaneously/ into my favorite text editor and edit them
more or less freely till I'm satisfied, then "commit" the overall result
by passing it back to git. Essentially "git rebase -i" on steroids.

git-revise is a third-party tool that can do this

https://git-revise.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

For example, "git revise -ie" allows you to edit all commit messages in
@{u}..HEAD in a single buffer.

I only looked at its description but the UI the tool does it with
looks quite obvious and intuitive.  From its source, the "merge"
operation does not seem to handle merging a side branch that renamed
files, but that should be OK most of the time, I presume.

From the docs:

No merge commits may occur between the target commit and HEAD, as
rewriting them is not supported. 

Nice.

Yeah, it is!

-- Sergey