Git Reword
This tool allows you to quickly reword the latest commits. The usual way to do it is to use git rebase --interactive, which is really slow on big repos. This tool only edits meta information of commits
Usage:
In a directory of a repo to edit:
git-reword <commit> <message> ...
Enter as much commit-message pairs as you need
Example:
Limitations:
The script assumes that all requested commits are in one line (starting from HEAD) with no other refs or commits pointing to it. If there were other refs or commits, they would point to old versions of reworded commits. So use this tool to only reword commit on local topic branches with no other branches based on it.
Installation
One way is to add the project directory to PATH with
export PATH=$(pwd):$PATH
for bash or with
set PATH (pwd) $PATH
for fish.
Another way is to create a symbolic link to the script in a PATH directory of your choice:
cd ~/.local/bin
ln -s path/to/script/git-reword.py git-reword
Requirements
You have to install pygit2:
pip install pygit2 --user