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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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the_duke ◴[14 Oct 24 11:47 UTC] No.41836624[source]▶
I think all of this is available in lazygit as well, which seems to still be way too unknown, despite the 50k stars: https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit
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rkangel ◴[14 Oct 24 13:05 UTC] No.41837147[source]▶
All I want is a good TUI git log viewer. I'm perfectly happy to do all the operations on the command line, but navigating the log works well interactively (e.g. start as --first-parent, with single line entries and then be able to selectively show branch commits, and patches for commits).

I end up with a log view and then copy and paste commit hashes to do different things. Or use Sublime Merge which is great, but doesn't work over SSH.

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skydhash ◴[14 Oct 24 16:15 UTC] No.41838948[source]▶
Not a great solution, but install emacs and then magit. A bit of a learning curve but works great.
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dingnuts ◴[14 Oct 24 18:16 UTC] No.41840271[source]▶
I love Emacs and magit and use them myself but this advice seems a little bit like telling someone looking to buy an airline ticket that the best way to get from coast to coast is to become a pilot

It's true that the juice may be worth the squeeze for some, but "a bit of a learning curve" undersells it a little bit, I fear LOL

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1. skydhash ◴[14 Oct 24 18:32 UTC] No.41840430[source]▶
That’s a strange parallel to make. It’s not Linux from Scratch. The basic can be taught in 5 minutes. Enough for the requested task.