git-fixup

Fighting the copy-paste element of your rebase workflow.

git fixup <ref> is simply an alias for git commit --fixup <ref>. That's just a convenience feature that can be also be used to trigger tab completion.

The magic is in plain git fixup without any arguments. It finds which lines/files you have changed, uses git blame/log to find the most recent commits that touched those lines/files, and displays a list for you to pick from. This is a convenient alternative to manually searching through the commit log and copy-pasting the commit hash.

Install

On OS X you can install this script with homebrew

brew install git-fixup

On Arch linux you can install from AUR using yaourt or a similar tool

yaourt git-fixup

For most other systems (as long as they include install and make) you can install by cloning this repo and running make

git clone https://github.com/keis/git-fixup.git
cd git-fixup
make install
make install-zsh

Or if you don't want to deal with any of that you can simply download the scripts in anyway you like and make sure to put the program and completion script into your $PATH and $fpath respectively.

Usage

git-fixup [-s|--squash] [-f|--fixup] [-a|--amend] [-c|--commit] [--no-verify]
          [--rebase] [-b|--base <rev>] [<ref>]

For this tool to make any sense you should enable the rebase.autosquash setting in the git config, or use the --rebase option.

# Select the changes that should be part of the fixup.
$ git add -p

# Output a list of commits that the staged changes are likely a fixup of.
$ git fixup

# Create a fixup!-<commit> of the given ref. If you have installed the zsh script
# you can cycle through the list of fixup candidates with tab completion.
$ git fixup <ref>

# Commit rebased into the selected commit as a fixup.
$ git rebase -i ...

Options

-s, --squash

Instruct git-fixup to create a squash! commit instead of a fixup! commit.

Squashing gives you the opportunity to edit the commit message before the commits are squashed together.

Default action can be configured by setting fixup.action

-f, --fixup

Instruct git-fixup to create fixup! commit (This is the default).

Default action can be configured by setting fixup.action

-a, --amend

Instruct git-fixup to create an amend! commit.

Default action can be configured by setting fixup.action

-c, --commit

Instead of listing the suggested commits show a menu to pick a commit to create a fixup/squash commit of.

A default menu is provided that is intentionally very simple and with no advanced features. Instead of using it you can tell git fixup to use an external tool for the menu by defining a command line via either the fixup.menu setting in the git config or the GITFIXUPMENU environment variable (the latter overrides the former).

# Use fzf as a menu program
$ GITFIXUPMENU=fzf git fixup -c

This option can be enabled by default by setting fixup.commit in the git config.

--no-commit

Don't show the commit menu even if previously instructed to do so.

--rebase

Call an interactive rebase right after the commit is created, to automatically apply the fix-up into the target commit. This is merely to avoid doing two commands one after the other (git fixup && git rebase).

This simply calls git rebase --interactive --autosquash target~1, with the target being the commit to fix-up.

Default rebase/no-rebase can be configured by setting fixup.rebase

--no-rebase

Don't do a rebase even if previously instructed to do so (useful to bypass fixup.rebase)

--no-verify

Bypass the pre-commit and commit-msg hooks. (see git help commit)

--base

This option receives as argument the revision to be used as base commit for the search of fixup/squash candidates. You can use anything that resolves to a commit. The special value closest resolves to the closest ancestor branch of the current head.

If omitted, the default base commit is resolved in the following order:

1. The value of the environment variable GITFIXUPBASE if present;
2. The value of the configuration key fixup.base if present;
3. The branch configured as upstream of the current one (i.e. @{upstream}) if existing;
4. Finally, the root commit (i.e. full history) if nothing of the above is satisfied.

Configuration

git-fixup uses configuration from the ENVIRONMENT or from git config

fixup.base

Or GITFIXUPBASE

The default argument for --base. You can set the value closest to make git-fixup use the closest ancestor branch by default, for example.

fixup.action

Or GITFIXUPACTION

Decides if the default actions will be fixup or squash.

fixup.commit

Or GITFIXUPCOMMIT

Decides if the commit menu should be displayed instead of the commit list by default.

# Enable --commit for all my projects
$ git config --global fixup.commit true

fixup.rebase

Or GITFIXUPREBASE

Decides if git rebase should be called right after the git commit call.

# Enable --rebase for all my projects
$ git config --global fixup.rebase true

fixup.menu

Or GITFIXUPMENU

Sets the command that will be used to display the commit menu. If not set a simple default menu will be used.

See External menu for more details and a more advanced example.

Tab completion

Tab completion for zsh/fish is implemented. The suggestions for the tab completion are the suggested fixup bases as generated by running the tool without any arguments.

To be able to tab complete the command itself add a line like this to your zsh configuration::

zstyle ':completion:*:*:git:*' user-commands fixup:'Create a fixup commit'

External menu

In order to use an external tool for display the commit menu, you need to either define the fixup.menu setting in the git config or set the GITFIXUPMENU environment variable with the command for the menu. The menu command must receive as input the lines as the options for the user and return the selected line to the standard output.

The following example is a fragment of a git config that makes git fixup --commit display a nice menu with fzf:

[fixup]
    menu = fzf --height '60%' \
                --bind 'tab:toggle-preview' \
                --preview 'git show --color {+1}' \
                --preview-window=up:80% \
                --prompt 'Select commit: '

The default menu

If you have not configured an external menu, the default menu is used. See the example below:

$ git fixup -c
1) 500be603c66040dd8a9ca18832d6221c00e96184 [F] Add README.md <foo@bar.com>
2) ddab3b03da529af5303531a3d4127e3663063e08 [F] Add index.js <foo@bar.com>
Which commit should I fixup? <your-selection>

Here <your-selection> should be the number of the desired commit in the list. You can use q to abort the operation and h to see a help message for the menu.

If the commit title alone is not enough for you to decide, you can use show <number> to call git show on the <number>-th commit of the menu.

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md

Authors

The fine people who have contributed to this script in ASCIIbetical order.

• Cristiano Giuffrida (cgiuffr)
• David Keijser (keis)
• Elan Ruusamäe (glensc)
• Federico del Mazo (FdelMazo)
• Gustavo Sousa (guludo)
• Joe Shaw (joeshaw)
• Philippe (pe)
• Rickard Dybeck (alde)
• Tiago Ribeiro (fixe)