[FR] Mark a commit for later command

[carbon-steel]

Tig is currently great at constructing commands with one branch/blob/commit/etc but I do not believe it currently supports constructing commands with two branches/blobs/commits/etc. I'd love to be able to highlight/mark/select branches/blobs/commits/etc for use in a later command for example...

bind refs x select
bind refs X clear-select

If you press x on a branch-A, it will highlight that branch. Then, when you move to branch-B and use the following binding...

bind refs r !git rebase %(selected) %(branch)

It will run the command git rebase branch-A branch-B.

This kind of functionality would be great for constructing git diff commands, squashing a range of commits, selecting a commit to cherry-pick, etc. The example I provided is a simple concept but this functionality could be expanded to support multiple selections as well.

[carbon-steel]

It looks like there is already an old PR for a similar idea: #708

[koutcher]

You should be able to get the same result using simple Git commands:

bind refs x @git update-ref refs/selected %(ref)
bind refs X @git update-ref -d refs/selected
bind refs r !git rebase refs/selected %(branch)

You can use %(prompt) to support multiple selections, e.g.

bind main      P       @git update-ref refs/registers/"%(prompt register: )" %(commit)
bind main      W       !sh -c "git diff --color-words refs/registers/\"%(prompt register: )\" %(commit)"