git: How to automate interactive rebase / replace it by equivalent git commands

Question

I need to automate a interactive rebase or replace it by other commands. Just let me explain my current situation:

In an svn->git transition i need to rebase the new

Answer 1

expect might help you, too. Though this isn't quite what you need to do, you should be able to use something similar to automate your process:

#!/usr/bin/env expect
spawn git rebase -i HEAD~2

# change the second "pick" to "squash"
# jump to top (if not there), down, delete word, insert 's' (for squash), Escape, save and quit
send "ggjdwis \033:wq\r"

expect "# This is a"

# skip past first commit message (assumed to be one line), delete rest of file
# down 4, delete 3 lines, save and quit
send "4j3d:wq\r"

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