How can I see how much I have remaining of a rebase?

Question

How can I see how much work is left on a rebase while it's in progress?

I.e. I want to see how much work git has left to check.

Answer 1

You are probably looking for this information for a normal rebase instead of an interactive rebase.

That information isn't shown for non interactive rebases. However you can find it out by looking in your rebase-apply directory.

In that directory there is all the information you need. Specifically if you are running with the default .git directory location you can find it out by running these commands

cat .git/rebase-apply/next
cat .git/rebase-apply/last

If you want to know the commit which is currently being applied then you can use the following

cat .git/rebase-apply/original-commit

And if you want to see the actual patches which are being applied then you can look at the numbered files in .git/rebase-apply

Answer 2

Starting with git version 2.26

Here's the shell command that prints the rebase progress:

( RMD="$( git rev-parse --git-path 'rebase-merge/' )" && N=$( cat "${RMD}msgnum" ) && L=$( cat "${RMD}end" ) && echo "${N} / ${L}" ; )

Sample output will be like

4 / 7

You can modify the last echo command parameter to print it using the format you like.

For git with versions that are <= 2.25

( RaD="$( git rev-parse --git-path 'rebase-apply/' )" && N=$( cat "${RaD}next" ) && L=$( cat "${RaD}last" ) && echo "${N} / ${L}" ; )

Answer 3

If you're using git-prompt.sh, your prompt will show something like |REBASE-i (x/y) when resolving a conflict during an interactive rebase, where x is rebase step out of y where the conflict occurred.