loom

A beautiful Git commit and rebase editor for the terminal.

loom is a lightweight TUI that replaces GIT_EDITOR for writing commit messages and interactive rebasing. It provides syntax-highlighted commit messages, conventional-commit autocomplete, co-author suggestions, a scrollable diff view, and a floating suggestion popup styled after VSCode and nvim-cmp.

Features

• Commit message editor — syntax highlighting for conventional commits, trailers (Co-authored-by, Reviewed-by, Signed-off-by, etc.), and bullet points
• Interactive rebase editor — change actions (pick, reword, edit, squash, fixup, drop), reorder commits, and expand inline diffs
• Floating autocomplete — VSCode/nvim-style suggestion popup at the cursor position, powered by the bubble-overlay library
• Conventional commit types — feat, fix, docs, refactor, and more, with descriptions
• Trailer autocomplete — suggests trailer names (Co-authored-by:, Reviewed-by:, …) and person values from git history and a persistent local store
• Persistent people — co-authors and reviewers are saved to ~/.loom/people.json and recalled across sessions
• Diff view — scrollable, syntax-highlighted diff with line numbers for 15+ languages

Installation

Homebrew

brew tap floatpane/loom
brew install loom

Snap

sudo snap install loom

Build from source

go install github.com/floatpane/loom@latest

Download binary

Download the latest binary from the releases page.

Usage

Set loom as your Git editor:

git config --global core.editor "loom"
git config --global sequence.editor "loom"

Or use it ad-hoc:

GIT_EDITOR=loom git commit
GIT_EDITOR=loom git rebase -i HEAD~5

loom automatically detects whether the file is a git-rebase-todo or a commit message and launches the appropriate interface.

Rebase command

loom also includes a convenience rebase command that fetches and rebases the current branch onto its upstream default branch:

loom rebase

This fetches the latest changes from the current branch's upstream remote and rebases onto upstream/<default-branch> (or the current remote's default branch if no upstream is configured).

To rebase a specific PR's branch without leaving your current branch:

loom rebase pr 123

This checks out PR #123's branch, rebases it onto its upstream, then returns you to the branch you were on.

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. Please follow the PR template format.

License

MIT