Customization

Table of Contents

• Usage
• Git Configuration
• General Settings
• Colors
• Key Bindings
• External Editor

Usage

The tool can be customized using the git config command. String values are case-insensitive.

Example

git config --global interactive-rebase-tool.foregroundColor black

Git Configuration

Some values from your Git Config are directly used by this application.

Key	Description
core.commentChar	Used when reading the TODO file to excluded commented lines
core.editor	Used when deciding what editor to open when trigger the external editor
diff.context	Used by show commit when generating a diff
diff.interHunkContext	Used by show commit when generating a diff
diff.renameLimit	Used by show commit when generating a diff
diff.renames	Used by show commit when generating a diff

General

Key	Default	Type	Description
autoSelectNext	false	bool	If true, auto select the next line after action modification
diffIgnoreBlankLines	none	String¹	If to ignore blank lines during diff.
diffIgnoreWhitespace	none	String¹	If and how to ignore whitespace during diff.
diffShowWhitespace	both	String²	If and how to show whitespace during diff.
diffSpaceSymbol	·	String	The visible symbol for the space character. Only used when diffShowWhitespace is enabled.
diffTabSymbol	→	String	The visible symbol for the tab character. Only used when diffShowWhitespace is enabled.
diffTabWidth	4	Integer	The width of the tab character
undoLimit	5000	Integer	Number of undo operations to store.
postModifiedLineExecCommand		String	Exec command to attach to modified lines. See modified line exec command for details.
verticalSpacingCharacter	~	String	Vertical spacing character. Can be set to an empty string.

¹ Ignore whitespace can be:

• change to ignore changed whitespace in diffs, same as the --ignore-space-change flag
• true, on or all to ignore all whitespace in diffs, same as the --ignore-all-space flag
• false, off, none to not ignore whitespace in diffs

² Show whitespace can be:

• leading to show leading whitespace only
• trailing to show trailing whitespace only
• true, on or both to show both leading and trailing whitespace
• false, off, none to show no whitespace

Colors

The valid colors are the eight original 8 ANSI colors. They are black, blue, cyan, green, magenta, red, white and yellow. Dimmed versions of the 8 ANSI colors can be used by prefixing the color with dark, for example dark red. Each terminal controls the exact color for these color names. On terminals that support 256 colors, a color triplet with the format <red>,<green>,<blue> can be used. Each color has a range of 0 to 255 with 255, 255, 255 resulting in white and 0,0,0 resulting in black. A value of -1 or transparent can be used to use the default terminal color.

Key	Default	Type	Description
backgroundColor	Default¹	Color	Color used for the background
breakColor	white	Color	Color used for the break action
diffAddColor	green	Color	Color used for lines and files added in a diff
diffChangeColor	yellow	Color	Color used for lines and files changed in a diff
diffContextColor	white	Color	Color used for context in a diff
diffRemoveColor	red	Color	Color used for lines and files removed in a diff
diffWhitespace	black	Color	Color used for whitespace in a diff
dropColor	red	Color	Color used for the drop action
editColor	blue	Color	Color used for the edit action
execColor	blue	Color	Color used for the exec action
fixupColor	magenta	Color	Color used for the fixup action
foregroundColor	Default¹	Color	Color used for most text and the UI
indicatorColor	cyan	Color	Color used for text the indicates or needs to standout
labelColor	dark yellow	Color	Color used for the label action
mergeColor	dark yellow	Color	Color used for the merge action
pickColor	green	Color	Color used for the pick action
resetColor	dark yellow	Color	Color used for the reset action
rewordColor	yellow	Color	Color used for the reword action
selectedBackgroundColor	35,35,40	Color	Color used as the background color for the selected line
squashColor	cyan	Color	Color used for the squash action
updateRefColor	dark magenta	Color	Color used for the update-ref action

¹ By default the foreground and background colors use the terminal defined colors

Key Bindings

Most keys can be changed to any printable character or supported special character. It is possible to provide conflicting bindings, which will result in undefined behavior. The inputConfirmYes binding has a special behavior in that it responds to both the uppercase and lowercase letter of the value set, if the variant exist.

Key	Default	Type	Description
inputAbort	q	String	Key for abort rebase with prompt
inputActionBreak	b	String	Key for setting action to rebase
inputActionDrop	d	String	Key for setting action to drop
inputActionEdit	e	String	Key for setting action to edit
inputActionFixup	f	String	Key for setting action to fixup
inputActionPick	p	String	Key for setting action to pick
inputActionReword	r	String	Key for setting action to reword
inputActionSquash	s	String	Key for setting action to squash
inputConfirmNo	n	String	Key for rejecting a confirmation
inputConfirmYes	y	String	Key for confirming a confirmation
inputEdit	E	String	Key for entering edit mode
inputForceAbort	Q	String	Key for forcing an abort of the rebase
inputForceRebase	W	String	Key for forcing a rebase
inputHelp	?	String	Key for showing the help
inputInsertLine	I	String	Key for inserting a new line
inputDuplicateLine	Control+d	String	Key for duplicating the selected line
inputMoveDown	Down	String	Key for moving the cursor down
inputMoveEnd	End	String	Key for moving the cursor to the end of the list
inputMoveHome	Home	String	Key for moving the cursor to the top of the list
inputMoveLeft	Left	String	Key for moving the cursor left
inputMoveRight	Right	String	Key for moving the cursor right
inputMoveSelectionDown	j	String	Key for moving the selected line(s) down
inputMoveSelectionUp	k	String	Key for moving the selected line(s) up
inputMoveStepDown	PageDown	String	Key for moving the cursor down by a large step
inputMoveStepUp	PageUp	String	Key for moving the cursor up by a large step
inputMoveUp	Up	String	Key for moving the cursor up
inputOpenInExternalEditor	!	String	Key for opening the external editor
inputRebase	w	String	Key for rebasing with confirmation
inputRedo	Control+y	String	Key for redoing the previous undone change
inputRemoveLine	Delete	String	Key for removing selected commits
inputScrollDown	Down	String	Key for scrolling the view down
inputScrollEnd	End	String	Key for scrolling the view to the bottom
inputScrollHome	Home	String	Key for scrolling the view to the top
inputScrollLeft	Left	String	Key for scrolling the view to the left
inputScrollRight	Right	String	Key for scrolling the view to the right
inputScrollStepDown	PageDown	String	Key for scrolling the view one step down
inputScrollStepUp	PageUp	String	Key for scrolling the view one step up
inputScrollUp	Up	String	Key for scrolling the view to the up
inputShowCommit	c	String	Key for showing the overview of the selected commit
inputShowDiff	d	String	Key for showing the diff of the selected commit
inputToggleVisualMode	v	String	Key for toggling visual mode
inputUndo	Control+z	String	Key for undoing the previous change

Example

# single value
git config --global interactive-rebase-tool.inputRebase S
# multiple values
git config --global interactive-rebase-tool.inputRebase "S L K"

Supported Special Keys

Keys that do not have easily printable characters, such as the arrow keys, are set using the special values defined in the table below. Some special keys do not work correctly on some setups.

Key	Description
BackTab	Back tab key
Backspace	Backspace key
Delete	Delete key
Down	Down arrow key
End	End key
Enter	Enter key
Esc	Escape key
F{1..255}	Function X key
Home	Home key
Insert	Insert key
Left	Left arrow key
PageDown	Page down key
PageUp	Page up key
Right	Right arrow key
Tab	Tab key
Up	Up arrow key

Modifier Keys

Most bindings can be prefixed with Shift, Control or Alt, followed by a +. These bindings can also be combined in any order, for example Alt+Control+Delete. Shift combined with any ASCII alphabetical character will not work, and the uppercase character must be used instead.

Multiple Key Bindings

A single action can have multiple bindings by providing a whitespace separate list of keys. For example the binding, "u Control+z Control+Z" would respond to a keypress of a, Control z and Control Z.

Restricted Keys

Some key combinations are restricted as they have special meaning. They are:

Key	Description
Control+c	Immediately aborts the program without writing the rebase todo file to disk

External Editor

The external editor action will first attempt to start the editor defined by the Git configuration "core.editor", followed by the VISUAL and EDITOR environment variables. Finally, if neither is set, the external editor defaults to using vi.

The % character in the value will be replaced with the rebase todo file. If the % character is not found, then the git rebase todo file will be provided as the last argument.