Hi Stefan, On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 04:00:04PM -0700, Stefan Xenos wrote: > Hello, List! > > I'm interested in porting something like Mercurial's evolve command to > Git.
Welcome to Git :-). I think that the discussion in this thread is good, but it's not why I'm replying. I have also wanted a Mercurial feature in Git, but a different one than yours. Specifically, I've wanted the 'hg absorb' command. My understanding of the commands functionality is that it builds a sort of flamegraph-esque view of the blame, and then cascades downwards parts of a change. I am sure that I'm not doing the command justice, so I'll defer to [1] where it is explained in more detail. The benefit of this command is that it gives you a way to--without ambiguity--absorb changes into earlier commits, and in fact, the earliest commit that they make sense to belong to. This would simplify my workflow greatly when re-rolling patches, as I often want to rewrite a part of an earlier commit. This is certainly possible by a number of different `git rebase` invocations (e.g., (1) create fixup commits, and then re-order them, or (2) mark points in your history as 'edit', and rewrite them in a detached state, and I'm sure many more). I'm curious if you or anyone else has thought about how this might work in Git. Thanks, Taylor [1]: http://files.lihdd.net/hgabsorb-note.pdf
