About

scm-record is a Rust library for a UI component to interactively select changes to include in a commit. It's meant to be embedded in source control tooling.

You can think of this as an interactive replacement for git add -p, or a reimplementation of hg crecord/hg commit -i. Given a set of changes made by the user, this component presents them to the user and lets them select which of those changes should be staged for commit.

The scm-record library is directly integrated into these projects:

• git-branchless: the git record -i command lets you interactively select and commit changes.
• Jujutsu: as the built-in diff editor; see the ui.diff-editor configuration option.

Standalone executable

scm-diff-editor is a standalone executable that uses scm-record as the front-end. It can be installed via cargo:

$ cargo install --locked scm-diff-editor

The scm-diff-editor executable can be used with these tools:

• Git: as a difftool.
• Mercurial: via the extdiff extension.
• Likely other source control systems as well.

Future work

Feature wishlist

Here are some features in the UI which are not yet implemented:

• Make the keybindings easier to discover (https://github.com/arxanas/scm-record/issues/25).
• Support accessing the menu with the keyboard (https://github.com/arxanas/scm-record/issues/44).
• Edit one side of the diff in an editor.
• Multi-way split UI to split a commit into more than 2 commits (https://github.com/arxanas/scm-record/issues/73).
• Support for use as a mergetool.
• Commands to select ours/theirs for diffs representing merge conflicts.

Integration with other projects

Here's some projects that don't use scm-record, but could benefit from integration with it (with your contribution):

• Sapling
• Stacked Git
• Pijul
• gitoxide/ein
• gitui
• Game of Trees