Native cross-platform full feature terminal based sequence editor for interactive rebase in Git 1.7.8+. Written in Rust using ncurses.
Download the .deb file from the releases page and install. The executable will be installed to /usr/bin.
git config --global sequence.editor interactive-rebase-tool
Download the macos-interactive-rebase-tool from the releases page and copy it as interactive-rebase-tool
to a location on your PATH.
git config --global sequence.editor interactive-rebase-tool
Note: Windows binaries are not fully tested. If you are having issues please report them.
Download the tool from the releases page and save it to a known location. There are 32-bit and 64-bit versions if you are unsure which binary to download, you probably want the 64-bit build.
git config --global core.editor "'C:/path/to/interactive-rebase-tool'"
With Rust's package manager [cargo], you can install git-interactive-rebase-tool via:
shell
cargo install git-interactive-rebase-tool
Cargo adds git-interactive-rebase-tool automatically to your PATH, so you can simply run:
git config --global sequence.editor interactive-rebase-tool
shell
interactive-rebase-tool <rebase-todo-filepath>
interactive-rebase-tool --help
interactive-rebase-tool --version
The tool has built-in help that can be accessed by hitting the ? key.
| 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 |
| c | Show commit information |
| 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 |
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>]]
The tool can be configured using the git config command. Invalid values are ignored and the default used instead. String values are case-insensitive.
git config --global interactive-rebase-tool.foregroundColor black
| Key | Default | Type | Description |
| ------------------ | ------- | ----- | ----------- |
| autoSelectNext | false | bool | If true, auto select the next line after action modification |
| foregroundColor | white | Color | Color used for most text and the UI |
| indicatorColor | yellow | Color | Color used for text the indicates or needs to standout |
| errorColor | red | Color | Color used for showing error messages |
| diffAddColor | green | Color | Color used for lines added in a diff |
| diffRemoveColor | red | Color | Color used for lines removed in a diff |
| pickColor | green | Color | Color used for the pick action |
| rewordColor | yellow | Color | Color used for the reword action |
| editColor | blue | Color | Color used for the edit action |
| squashColor | cyan | Color | Color used for the squash action |
| fixupColor | magenta | Color | Color used for the fixup action |
| dropColor | red | Color | Color used for the drop action |
The valid colors are the eight original 8 ANSI colors. They are black, blue, cyan, green, magenta, red, white and yellow. Each terminal controls the exact color for these color names.
To start developing the project you will need to install Rust, which can generally be done using [rustup].
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
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>
cargo install cargo-deb
cargo build --release
cargo deb
A deb file will be written to target/debian/interactive-rebase-tool_*.deb.
exec actionGit Interactive Rebase Tool is released under the ISC license. See LICENSE.