From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:34:35 GMT
Subject: Re: git history feedback
Message-ID: <0299ea0d-a042-4457-bd7e-0904b38a219b@app.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87ecimhg8s.fsf@rasmusvillemoes.dk>

On Thu, Jun 4, 2026, at 10:17, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
>[snip]
>
> So today I had occasion to put it to real use, and then I found two
> things I'd like to be able to do with it:
>
> When a commit needs to be split into three or more commits, it is a
> little cumbersome to do iteratively, since the new commit to split
> obviously has a new sha, so one first has to figure out what that new id
> is and then do another "git history split". For higher values of "three"
> that becomes rather tedious. So it would be nice if there was an
> iterative mode, which after splitting off the first commit would
> automatically start again with the new child commit.

For commit subject `anchor` I would do something like this.

1. `git history split :/anchor`
2. Split out the first commit with a new message; keep the `anchor`
   subject of the original
3. Repeat (1)

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