Comment by nicois
11 hours ago
A large percentage of git users are unaware of git-absorb (https://github.com/tummychow/git-absorb). This complements just about any git flow, vastly reducing the pain of realising you want to amend your staged changes into multiple commits. This sits well alongside many TUIs and other tools, most of which do not offer any similar capability.
I see the usefulness. But my client is magit, and committing and rebasing are so quick that this will reduce perhaps 30 seconds to one minute to my workflow. And I do not like most rust tools, because they're too dependency heavy.
Definitely. The instant fixup feature is just three keystrokes away (s c F). The only thing this helps is when you don't want to spend the extra brain cycles to figure out which commit to fixup on.
The task that absorb speeds up is finding the commit where each hunk was last changed. The actual committing and rebaseing is still basically the same.
Git blame using `M-x vc-annotate` with Emacs. But If I have a clean PR that usually means one to three commits (If it's not a big refactoring). So the whole point become moot. In magit, if you create a fixup or a squash commit, it will present you with the log to select the target.
It's in the GNU/Debian repo and I guess in a lot of other distros as well.
I gave it a try a few months ago, and wasn't impressed. About a quarter of the time it got confused about the commit it should squash into, and left the repo in a half-applied state. This inconsistency was enough for me to not trust it when it did work, so I stopped using it.
Honestly, it's too much magic for my taste. And, really, it's not much manual work to create fixup commits for the right commit anyway.
to me this appears to be trading off a valid change log for neat naming ... i dont see why rewriting history is ever a good idea