I made a git rebase TUI editor
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)…
I made a git rebase TUI editor launched on October 13, 2024 with 115 votes, #453 of 5,185 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
In plain words
This is a terminal-based editor for Git interactive rebasing that brings IntelliJ's rebase interface to the command line. It lets developers move, fixup, and drop commits; rename them without interrupting the rebase; view modified files per commit; and split commits by file. Built in OCaml, it targets developers who frequently use interactive rebase but prefer a visual interface over Vim.
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From the sources
Mini elm-inspired utilities for Ocaml CLI applications - NyuB/ocli
demo_tty , a sample of all implemented ansi features and a quick way to visually check the behaviour of the framework on a given terminal. $ wget https://github.com/NyuB/ocli/releases/latest/download/newbase $ wget https://github.com/NyuB/ocli/releases/latest/download/rebase_edit $ chmod +x newbase rebase_edit $ # Supposing ~/bin is in your PATH, replace with the desired installation root $ mv newbase ~ /bin/ $ mv rebase_edit ~ /bin/ Core libraries tea , Elm-inspired application structure tty Wrappers around OCaml Stdlib termios functions Wrappers around ANSI terminal control sequences components , composable ansi widgets Miscelaneous ppx_cross_match , a ppx to generate a sinle pattern from…from github.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
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…
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