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by chatmasta 2899 days ago
This is the kind of tool I've always needed without realizing it. I didn't even know git could use specific editors for rebasing.

I rebase every day and although I enjoy practicing my vim strokes, the rebase editor is the last place I want to make a mistake. So this looks really useful. I'm going to install it. Thanks!
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mitmaro 2899 days ago
No problem!

Git does a fair bit as files under the covers, so it makes tools such as this very possible.

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chatmasta 2899 days ago
Yeah, I've always known you can use a custom editor for commits etc, but didn't know git config had enough granularity to use a custom tool for rebasing. Very cool!

Btw, requests:

- Please publish a homebrew package

- Mention any git version requirements in the README (or if this will work with nearly any version of git?)

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mitmaro 2899 days ago
I am not a Mac user anymore, but when I was I used Homebrew a fair bit. A Homebrew package would be great and there has been an issue [1] for it for a little while.

Adding the Git version to README is a great idea. I will have to do some research on when the `sequence.editor` option was added. An initial check [2] makes me believe it will work with Git > 1.7.8, which was over 7 years ago.

1: https://github.com/MitMaro/git-interactive-rebase-tool/issue...

2: https://github.com/git/git/commit/821881d88d3012a64a52ece9a8...

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