Re: How to display "HEAD~*" in "git log"

By the way, you can consider "going more interactive" with the approach which involves scripting. For instance, you can use any of the "fuzzy finders" such as the venerable fzf [1] to interactively select a commit to rebase - something like

  $ git log --oneline -50 | fzf | cut -d ' ' -f 1

would produce the log of the last 50 commits, allow you to interactively select a commit of interest by typing some of the characters of its message and/or hash and then print the selected hash.

This can be easily combined with rebasing: for instance, if you have the above encantation available as an alias named "select" or a custom script named "git-select", you could do

  $ git rebase -i $(git select)~

to not even copy or memorize anyting.

I, for one, routinely use fzf to pick a branch for checkout.

1. https://github.com/junegunn/fzf