Git rebase.abbreviateCommands

This is probably a very niche use case, but I learned today that you can abbreviate commands that git populates in the todo list during an interactive rebase.

So it’ll look like this:

    p deadbee The oneline of the commit
    p fa1afe1 The oneline of the next commit

You can enable this with git config --global rebase.abbreviateCommands true.

To be clear, you can always use the abbreviated commands, but since I use Vim to edit the list, it makes it slightly more convenient to edit the commands.

For instance, before when the command was pick, and I wanted to squash a commit, I would jump to the line, type ciw to delete the word pick and enter insert mode, then type s and then esc.

But when the command is p, I can just type r and s.

So if you’re counting, that’s three fewer keystrokes for each command. Mission. Accomplished.