Comment by fphilipe

I use the colon as EDITOR with Git when I want to do an interactive rebase combined with auto squash without having to edit the todo list.

I have an alias[1] for that which I call a quick interactive rebase:

    riq = -c sequence.editor=: rebase --interactive

[1]: https://github.com/fphilipe/dotfiles/blob/94f2ff70bade070694...