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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "R. Diez" <rdiez-2006@rd10.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Graphical tool to merge and reorder commits
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2025 11:34:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqplcsiimq.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4398af77-3183-4ac5-9a25-aca6289d8c8f@rd10.de> (R. Diez's message of "Sun, 17 Aug 2025 23:02:53 +0200")

"R. Diez" <rdiez-2006@rd10.de> writes:

> Is there some graphical tool to merge and reorder commits with the
> mouse? Or failing that, a good terminal interface with menus and
> the like which allows merging and reordering in an easy, visual
> fashion.
> ...
> I have tried or investigated numerous Git tools: git-gui, gitk,
> Gittyup, GitUI, GitButler, SourceGit, git-cola, Guitar, gitg, tig,
> giggle, qgit, RabbitVCS, Magit, lazygit, ... They are all fine for
> normal commits and the like. However, most fall short fairly
> quickly. For example, the ability to highlight character or
> word-based changes inside a text line is rare. And none of them
> really appealed to me when merging, let alone rearrange commits
> visually.

It would be a fun little project to write a GUI front-end that emits
"rebase -i" todo file and drives the interaction, if there is none
already (which your research seems to indicate).

Sounds like you found a good starter project for the next GSoC or
Outreachy students, I guess ;-)


  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-08-18 18:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-08-17 21:02 Graphical tool to merge and reorder commits R. Diez
2025-08-18 18:04 ` Konstantin Khomoutov
2025-08-18 18:34 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2025-08-19  8:07   ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-08-19  8:35     ` R. Diez
2025-08-19  9:51       ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2025-08-19 11:05         ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-08-19 11:14         ` R. Diez
2025-08-19 12:08           ` Ben Knoble
2025-08-19 16:33         ` Junio C Hamano
2025-08-19 19:09           ` Johannes Sixt

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