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
