Re: rebase -i: quick/inline reword

From: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date: May 8, 2020, 00:05 UTC
Message-ID: <20200508000538.GE7234@camp.crustytoothpaste.net>
In-Reply-To: <87imh8m346.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>

On 2020-05-07 at 10:49:29, Sergey Organov wrote:

> It'd be really nice if it were possible to, say, search&replace in, or
> spell-check, interactively, all the commit messages (including titles)
> of a bunch of commits to be published, all in a single file handled by
> single rebase run.

It is possible to do this with a bit of shell scripting. You can run "git rebase -x" if you want to check every commit in a certain way.

If instead you'd like to modify all the commit messages, you can use something like this:

  GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR="sed -e 's/^pick /reword /'" \
  GIT_EDITOR="some-shell-script-that-modifies-its-file-argument-in-place" \
  git rebase -i BASE

I use something similar as an alias to automatically squash all my squash and fixup commits without needing to open an editor:

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

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