Re: rebase -i: quick/inline reword

["brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>]

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On 2020-05-07 at 10:49:29, Sergey Organov wrote:
> It'd be really nice if it were possible to, say, search&replace in, or
> spell-check, interactively, all the commit messages (including titles)
> of a bunch of commits to be published, all in a single file handled by
> single rebase run.

It is possible to do this with a bit of shell scripting.  You can run
"git rebase -x" if you want to check every commit in a certain way.

If instead you'd like to modify all the commit messages, you can use
something like this:

  GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR="sed -e 's/^pick /reword /'" \
  GIT_EDITOR="some-shell-script-that-modifies-its-file-argument-in-place" \
  git rebase -i BASE

I use something similar as an alias to automatically squash all my
squash and fixup commits without needing to open an editor:

  !f() { GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR=true git rebase -i --autosquash "$@"; };f
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