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Show HN: I made a git rebase TUI editor

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115 points NyuB | 1 comments | 13 Oct 24 20:03 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

I use interactive rebase quite often, and particularly like the editor bundled with IntelliJ. But I do not always work with IntelliJ, and am not 'fluent' with Vim, so I tried to replicate roughly the same rebase experience within a TUI. I used a small TUI OCaml project i made last year.

The notable features are: - Move commits up and down, fixup, drop - Rename commits from the editor (without having to stop for a reword during the rebase run) - Visualize modified files along commits - 'Explode' a commit ,creating a commit for each modified file (a thing I found myself doing quite often)

Feedbacks (both on the tool and the code) and contributions welcome, hope it could fit other people needs too !

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3D39739091 ◴[14 Oct 24 15:37 UTC] No.41838530[source]▶
Not trying to downplay your work, making cool tools is always cool, BUT:

1. You can also just configure Git to use whatever editor you'd like.

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config...

2. You don't need to be a Vim pro to interactive rebase effectively. Most of it will be `dd` to remove a line, `p` to paste a line, `j`/`k` to move up and down lines, and `cw` to change `pick` to `edit`, etc. Spend 15m with `vimtutor` (which is probably available on your system) and you'll never be afraid of vim again.

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samtheprogram ◴[14 Oct 24 16:13 UTC] No.41838930[source]▶
Second this. Just change the EDITOR variable.

You’re getting downvoted (probably because of the mini Vim tutorial in #2) while the author of the post wrote a whole TUI because they didn’t know to change their EDITOR variable.

Learn your tools, people. This is the equivalent of a contractor taping rulers together because they didn’t realize their bag comes with a tape measure.

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unfunco ◴[14 Oct 24 17:20 UTC] No.41839644[source]▶
It's GIT_EDITOR first, then EDITOR if GIT_EDITOR is not set.
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1. Jenk ◴[14 Oct 24 18:27 UTC] No.41840381[source]▶

    git config --global core.editor "vim"