Edit commit messages, authors, and timestamps during git-rebase
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git-fiddle (1) 
git-fiddleis a wrapper around
git-rebase(1)that allows editing of commit information straight from the
git-rebaseeditor, such as the author date, author name and commit message. This makes it trivial to edit a whole range of commits, shift them through time or alter ownership.
Installation
Simply ensure
git-fiddleis in your
$PATH. The
git fiddlealias will become available automatically.
Usage
Usage is almost identical to that of
git-rebase.
$ git fiddle -h git-fiddle - edit commit meta information during an *interactive* rebase.
git-fiddle(1)' is a lightweight wrapper aroundgit-rebase(1)' that annotates each commit with its author date, the author name, as well as the commit message. Changes to any of these will then be applied using an 'exec' script during the git-rebase sequence.Usage: git fiddle [options] [args...]
Options: --[no-]fiddle Turn ON/OFF fiddeling. Useful to turn off all options and selectively enable some. --[no-]fiddle-author Do (not) edit author names. Note that the author can still be edited, but it is not pre-populated. [git config: fiddle.author] --[no-]fiddle-author-email Do not pre-populate the author's email. Refer to --[no-]fiddle-author. [git config: fiddle.author.email] --[no-]fiddle-author-date Do (not) edit author dates. Note that the author date can still be edited, but it is not pre-populated. [git config: fiddle.author.date] --[no-]fiddle-subject Do (not) commit subject lines. Note that the commit message can still be edited, but it is not pre-populated. [git config: fiddle.subject] --[no-]fiddle-body Do (not) the commit body. Note that the commit message CANNOT be edit if this option is turned OFF and might case
git-rebaseerrors. [git config: fiddle.body] [args...] These arguments are passed verbatim to git-rebase.
License
git-fiddle is released under the MIT LICENSE. See file
LICENSEfor a more detailed description of its terms.