Re: How to interactively rebase-and-reword nth commit?

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Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@xxxxxxxxx> 于2021年8月25日周三 下午10:08写道:
>
> I think, one of the most frequent git features used is `rebase -i`. There's a common
> workflow I think everyone knows: you have commits 1, 2, 3, then you decide "Nah, 2nd
> commit needs a change", so you do `git rebase -i HEAD~2`, then in popped up editor
> you modify the `pick` on the first line to become `edit`, then you do the change,
> then `git rebase --continue`.
>
> The boilerplate part here: even though you know that you want to edit HEAD~2, there
> is no way to tell git that right away. Every time you have to launch editor, edit the
> line manually, then save it, close it.
>
> I have seen here some discussions about improving that, someone even posted patches,
> but I'm not aware if it went anywhere. So I created 2 years ago a shell wrapper
> `rebase-at`¹, which upon called as `rebase-at e HEAD~2`, does the thing described
> above automatically. Under the hood I simply substitute EDITOR with `sed` command
> that replaces `pick` on the first line (the HEAD~2 commit) with `e`. If used with
> shell autocompletion, it is now practically instantaneous.
>
> I'm almost happy with `rebase-at`, except I don't know of any way to make it work
> with `reword` git action. You see, "rewording a commit" requires to run EDITOR twice:
> first to substitute `pick` with `reword`, and then to actually edit the commit
> message. But since EDITOR was substituted with sed, the 2nd run won't give you an
> actual editor to change the commit message.
>
> Any ideas, how can I tell `git` that I want to "reword" nth commit right away? Sure,
> I am not the first one to stumble upon it, am I? Any ideas?
>
> 1: https://github.com/Hi-Angel/dotfiles/blob/0b9418224e4ce7c9783dbc2d9473fd1991b9b0b2/.zshrc#L148-L160
>
>

Ha, this is simply a dream feature for me.




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