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How to generate and parse an interactive rebase TODO list in Python

Generate a Git interactive rebase TODO list from commit data and parse it back into structured records.

git rebase automation
Python 
import re
from collections import namedtuple

Commit = namedtuple("Commit", ["hash", "subject"])

def generate_rebase_todo(commits, action="pick"):
    todo_lines = []
    for i, commit in enumerate(commits):
        if i == 0 and action == "reword":
            todo_lines.append(f"reword {commit.hash} {commit.subject…
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