Re: Programmatically edit the git rebase sequence?

From: Matt Hunter <m@lfurio.us>
Date: Jul 3, 2026, 14:33 UTC
Message-ID: <DJP0D7IZJ8WX.S1DDPT3KTQ95@lfurio.us>
In-Reply-To: <ake8OAIyK-ELs-fU@fruit.crustytoothpaste.net>

On Fri Jul 3, 2026 at 9:42 AM EDT, brian m. carlson wrote:

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> On 2026-07-03 at 12:02:33, Matthias Beyer wrote:
>> 
>> Now I fire up `git rebase -i master` and manually(!) match the list from
>> above `git-log` call and find the respective commits to edit them.
>> 
>> Is there a way I am not aware of to do that manual step programatically?
>> Something like
>> 
>>     git rebase -i master --edit-commits="$(git log master..mybranch --diff-filter=M --format="%H" -- "./subdir/*.rs")"
>> 
>> would be convenient here, although I would understand if that is too
>> much clutter for the already very heavy git CLI interface :-)
>
> Yes, such a thing exists.  You want `GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR`, which is an
> `EDITOR`-like command that edits the rebase list in place.  So tools
> like `ed`, `ex`, `sed -i`, `perl -i`, or `ruby -i` would be useful here.

Interesting tip - thanks!

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>
> I personally use this alias, which explicitly does not edit the sequence
> list, to automatically squash in all squash and fixup commits without
> prompting:
>
>     srebase = "!f() { GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR=true git rebase -m -i --autosquash \"$@\"; };f"

'git rebase --autosquash' does work now without the need to invoke --interactive mode. I believe we got this with f8f87e082798 (Merge branch 'ak/rebase-autosquash')