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by BinaryIdiot 3730 days ago
Thanks! I get the feeling I should give up on using a GUI for most of my git usage as doing many of these seems awkward or impossible with the GUI. That's probably part of my problem.
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For what it's worth, I pretty much exclusively use git through Eclipse's EGit UI. I do a lot of rebasing, as we use Atlassian's "centralized" workflow. [0] It's interactive rebase interface is pretty good. If you haven't used it, maybe try loading a repo into it and see how you do.

[0] https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/comparing-workflows/...

Interactive rebase works fine for me in Eclipse (eGit). At least on wiindows that's preferable to me over the command line editor.

However, I am squashing very rarely, mainly for commits which correct typos.

Yeah. I'd recommend that. Personally, I found that I didn't really understand git until I did it all from the command line. YMMV, but that's what made it all click for me.
I find SourceTree to be surprisingly effective. Also, try setting Sumblkme Text to be your core.editor in git