Git Interactive Rebase Tool

Full feature terminal based sequence editor for git interactive rebase. Written in Rust using ncurses.

Install

Debian and derivatives

Download the .deb file from the releases page and install. The executable will be installed to /usr/bin.

MacOS and OSX

Download the interactive-rebase-tool from the releases page and copy it to a location on your PATH.

Configure Git

In your command line run:

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

Usage

Getting Help

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

Key Bindings

| Key | Description | | ------------ | ----------- | | Up | Move selection up | | Down | Move selection down | | Page Up | Move selection up five lines | | Page Down | Move selection down five lines | | q | Abort interactive rebase | | Q | Immediately abort interactive rebase | | w | Write interactive rebase file | | W | Immediately write interactive rebase file | | ? | Show help | | j | Move selected commit down | | k | Move selected commit up | | p | Set selected commit to be picked | | r | Set selected commit to be reworded | | e | Set selected commit to be edited | | s | Set selected commit to be squashed | | f | Set selected commit to be fixed-up | | d | Set selected commit to be dropped |

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

You will need build-essential and libncurses5-dev to build the project. Additionally you will need pkg-config and liblzma-dev if you wish to build a release. They can be installed using apt-get:

sudo apt-get install build-essential libncurses5-dev
sudo apt-get install pkg-config liblzma-dev

Build and run

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

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

Release

Install Cargo Deb

Cargo Deb has not been released to creates.io so it will need to be installed from the GitHub repository.

cargo install --git https://github.com/mmstick/cargo-deb

Building

cargo build --release
cargo deb

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

License

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