How to set up a rebase in Git Bash on Windows

Question

I'm trying to following the instructions on https://help.github.com/articles/using-git-rebase-on-the-command-line/ for interactively rebasing from my initial commit (More specifically, I'm trying to remove all the bin and obj folders from the history). So once I type in

git rebase -i --root

I get the following screen as expected, but then I can't figure out how to change the first one to edit. Like I can't figure out which button on the keyboard to click. Sorry if this is a stupid question.

Answer 1

Thats pretty easy. You have to change the word pick to edit Then you save the file, in your case press ESC and then type :wq. Then git will start the rebase and you will stop on each commit you want to edit.

Edit: If you don't know how to insert in vim: press ESC and then i after that you are in insert-mode and as soon as you are finished with typing press ESC again and save it as described above.