I also recommend FZF. Really very handy for doing CTRL-R searches.

I also use it for doing interactive git rebases. I have an alias for doing a fuzzy rebase interactive (frbi):

   frbi = !git rebase -i $(git log --pretty=oneline --color=always | fzf --ansi | cut -d ' ' -f1)^

This is a great idea, thanks for it! I've done similar things with using fzf to git add, git diff, and so on, but I hadn't thought of using it to pick a commit to rebase from.

I made a few changes so I figured I'd post them back here in case you're interested:

    pick-commit = # equivalent to your git log... cut...
    rif = "!f() { rev=$(git pick-commit); [[ $rev ]] && git ri $rev~; }; f"

"rif" = "rebase interactive fzf/fuzzyfind". The function and test just makes it exit cleanly if you escape out of the filter instead of giving "fatal: invalid upstream '~'" (and I changed it from ^ to ~ because I think ~ is usually what one should use over ^, but I'm willing to be corrected). And obviously I already have 'ri' aliased to 'rebase -i'.

While I'm here, here are my similar git aliases for adding, diffing, etc. files using fzf:

    pick-status-files = "!f() { git status -z | xargs -0n1 | cut -c4- | fzi --print0 | xargs -0to git "$@"; }; f"
    af = !git pick-status-files add
    # and so on for diff, difftool, checkout, etc.

Oh, and 'fzi' (fuzzy-inline) is a small shell script that just calls:

    fzf --height 30% --reverse --multi "$@"

Can't edit this anymore.

    pick-status-files = "!f() { git status -z | xargs -0n1 | cut -c4- | fzi --print0 | xargs -0to git "$@"; }; f"

can just be:

    pick-status-files = !git status -z | xargs -0n1 | cut -c4- | fzi --print0 | xargs -0t git

I'd recently converted it from a standalone script so I just converted it verbatim into a function.

That looks great. Do you have your dotfiles shared by any chance?

Sure: https://github.com/kbd/setup

Here's my git config with a bajillion aliases: https://github.com/kbd/setup/blob/master/HOME/.config/git/co...

Since git commands are one of the most common things to type, I alias all short git aliases like so: https://github.com/kbd/setup/blob/fd1f826a9365895b7a3b8b5c58...

(link to particular commit so line numbers stay correct). That way my workflow looks like:

    $ ga (fuzzy find files to add)
    $ gcm "commit message"

etc.

Thanks for that. I like your improvements to my idea too! :)

Yay. Btw, one more improvement. TIL xargs will skip blank inputs (depending on bsd/gnu xargs, flags etc...), so my version above:

    rif = "!f() { rev=$(git pick-commit); [[ $rev ]] && git ri $rev~; }; f"

can just be:

    rif = !git pick-commit | xargs -tI% git ri %~

These ones are pretty good too:

https://github.com/cantino/mcfly

https://github.com/dvorka/hstr

fzf is the most fun and productive tool added in my dotfiles in recent years.

Mix it with https://github.com/rupa/z or https://github.com/skywind3000/z.lua for fuzzysearch/cd

And you can do cool scripts, like:

- search your vim edited files with highlighted preview: https://github.com/BarbUk/dotfiles/blob/master/shell/complet...

- search and open your chrome history: https://github.com/BarbUk/dotfiles/blob/master/shell/complet...