On Nov 29, 2012, at 9:48 AM, Kyle Sluder <k...@ksluder.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012, at 03:51 AM, Charles Srstka wrote:
>> On Nov 29, 2012, at 4:39 AM, "jonat...@mugginsoft.com"
>> <jonat...@mugginsoft.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Interactive rebasing is quite straightforward.
>>> 
>>> # fiddle with the last 10 commits
>>> git rebase -i HEAD~10
>> 
>> I think that what Greg was referring to was the fact that it can't be
>> done from within Xcode without dropping down to the Terminal, which is
>> something that the Xcode team could certainly fix.
> 
> How about we get them to fix the IDE before we have them write a git GUI?

Well, Xcode already provides a partial git GUI...

>> 
>>> I also subscribe to the commit small and often philosophy. 
>>> If I don't I tend to end up with a ball of changes that ultimately get 
>>> committed under some very vague title as I have forgotten the detail of 
>>> what I was doing.
>> 
>> That's exactly my experience as well. Then one of those changes in the
>> commit causes a side-effect, and on looking back on the change that
>> caused it, you can't remember what specifically it was supposed to do in
>> the first place.
> 
> One might argue that it would be a good idea for Xcode to offer the
> ability to commit snapshots to a branch on the git repo to which all the
> affected files belong, if one such repo exists. That seems a lot less of
> a burden that writing a wrapper for interactive rebase.

That works. This, too, would be more efficient than having a whole separate 
repository.

Charles


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