Johannes Altmanninger <aclopte@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> > !f() { GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR=true git rebase -i --autosquash "$@"; };f
>>
>> These are very good and useful features indeed, and they are examples of
>> batch processing that is very handy for automation, but lacks
>> interactivity. What I rather have in mind is being able to put all the
>> messages /simultaneously/ into my favorite text editor and edit them
>> more or less freely till I'm satisfied, then "commit" the overall result
>> by passing it back to git. Essentially "git rebase -i" on steroids.
>
> git-revise is a third-party tool that can do this
>
> https://git-revise.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
>
> For example, "git revise -ie" allows you to edit all commit messages in
> @{u}..HEAD in a single buffer.
I only looked at its description but the UI the tool does it with
looks quite obvious and intuitive. From its source, the "merge"
operation does not seem to handle merging a side branch that renamed
files, but that should be OK most of the time, I presume.
Nice.
