From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 12:41:40 GMT
Subject: Re: A new way to get a sha1?
Message-ID: <CAMK1S_hhYi=dLrPy2j28=QMi-UDg7ZGXU=t9WqykVmx3XRyswQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <jv5tln$96e$1@dough.gmane.org>

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Thomas Badie <thomas.badie@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> When I should fixup or squash a commit, I nearly never
> remember how to get the sha1 of the commit I want to fixup.
> Because sometimes HEAD~n is not enough, I make `git log`,
> copy the sha1 of the right commit and paste it in my git
> fixup command. So I wrote a perl script to avoid the usage
> of the mouse. And after discussion with some of my friends,
> this can be generalized as a generic command line interface
> tool to get a sha1.
>
> The idea is to have a perl module which run through
> the log history and print 10 shortlog associated with a number
> from 0 to 9, and a message below "Select commit [| 0, 9 |] or
> next row ?" or this kind of message with several options.

In general, I prefer nothing to be *interactive*, so I would vote an
emphatic no.

Also, try "tig" and see if you can customise it.  For example, in
order to create a new commit that is meant to be a fixup of some other
commit, I 'git add' what is needed (either command line or tig again)
then hit "m" to the main window, scroll down to the commit concerned,
and hit "=".

That "=" comes from this line in ~/.tigrc:

    bind    main            =   !git commit --fixup=%(commit)

Please use such methods to keep interactivity where it belongs, is my opinion.